November 25, 2007 Earthquake: Sumbawa Island, Indonesia

Name: November 25, 2007 Earthquake: Sumbawa Island, Indonesia
Start: 2007-11-25
Location: Sumbawa Island, Indonesia

November 25, 2007 · M6.5 · 3 deaths

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake struck Sumbawa Island, Indonesia on November 25, 2007 at 16:02:17 UTC, 35 km below the surface. It killed 3 people.

Map

Where it struck, with the other significant earthquakes within 200 km. Circles are sized and colored by magnitude; select one for its page.

The earthquake

Date: November 25, 2007
Time: 16:02:17 UTC
Place: Sumbawa Island, Indonesia
Magnitude: 6.5 (Mw)
Magnitude scales: Mw 6.5 · mb 6.2 · ML 6.3
Focal depth: 35 km (22 mi)
Tsunami: None recorded
Epicenter: 8.277° S, 118.339° E
Country: Indonesia
Region: South and Southeast Asia and Indian Ocean
USGS record: The USGS’s page for this earthquake

Mw: moment magnitude, based on the slip on the fault and the area that slipped. mb: body-wave (P-wave) magnitude. ML: local magnitude, the original Richter scale. NCEI’s headline magnitude is the best of these for the earthquake.

The toll

Deaths: 3
Injuries: Many (about 101 to 1,000)
Damage: Moderate (about $1 to $5 million)
Houses destroyed: Many (101 to 1,000)

Where the literature gives no number, NCEI records a description on a scale of 1 to 4, printed here in its words. Damage is in millions of US dollars of the year of the event, not adjusted for inflation.

What happened

The USGS’s account of the effects of this earthquake.

Three people killed, hundreds injured and hundreds of houses destroyed (V) in the Bima-Dompu-Raba area. Felt (IV) at Sumbawabesar and (III) at Taliwang. Also felt (IV) at Mataram, Lombok and (III) at Denpasar, Bali and at Labuhanbajo, Flores. Felt at Kuta and Ubud, Bali.

From the USGS event page for usp000ft98. U.S. Geological Survey text and figures are in the public domain.

Magnitude estimates

The magnitudes the USGS catalog lists for this earthquake, by scale and by who computed them. NCEI’s own scales are in the table above.

Mag.	Scale	Computed by	Notes
6.5	Mwc, centroid moment	USGS National Earthquake Information Center	Preferred · Reviewed
6.46	Mw, moment	ISC-GEM global catalog	Final · ±0.1
6.5	Mwc, centroid moment	Global CMT project	Preliminary
6.0	Me, energy	Choy, USGS energy magnitude	Reviewed

What the record says

NCEI’s account, from the sources it cites.

A magnitude 6.5 earthquake on November 25, 2007 at 16:02:18 UTC (Nov 26 12:02 AM local time in Indonesia) in the Sumbawa Region, Indonesia, caused 3 deaths, hundreds of injuries and destroyed hundreds of houses (V) in the Bima-Dompu-Raba area. Felt (IV) at Sumbawabesar and (III) at Taliwang. Also felt (IV) at Mataram, Lombok and (III) at Denpasar, Bali and at Labuhanbajo, Flores. Felt at Kuta and Ubud, Bali. (reference #1053)

Sources NCEI cites

The publications NCEI lists for this record. The numbers match the “reference #” notes in its account above.

#1053 National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) (1971 to 2013). Preliminary Determination of Epicenters (PDE), a weekly and monthly publication, National Earthquake Information Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Golden, Colorado, 1971 to 2013.

Other significant earthquakes nearby

Within 200 km, the deadliest first.

Significant earthquakes of 2007 The 2000s Every quake the USGS located in 2007 Recent earthquakes near here This day in weather history

Sources

Significant earthquakes from NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, Global Historical Hazard Database, cited as NCEI/WDS, doi:10.7289/V5PN93H7. Public domain. Read 2026-10-01. NCEI earthquake 7674. The written accounts and the magnitude estimates are from the USGS earthquake catalog, event usp000ft98, matched to this record by time, place and magnitude.