Open Earth

Indonesia

Natural hazards, earthquakes, volcanoes, weather warnings and conditions across Indonesia, with every town we track. Updated automatically from official sources.

Notable events, 12 months

755

Quakes, 12 months (all sizes)

650

Strongest quake, 10 years

M7.8

Active now

1

Storms, fires, floods and more

Hazard summary for Indonesia

In the past 12 months Open Earth recorded 755 notable hazard events in Indonesia: 650 earthquakes, 102 wildfires, 3 floods. Seismic networks logged 650 earthquakes of all sizes over the same period. The strongest earthquake in the last ten years measured magnitude 7.8. Right now 1 wildfire is active. There are 101 volcanoes in Indonesia.

By hazard

Notable events in the last 30 days and 12 months.

Notable events by month, last 12 months

Temperature and air quality history

The extremes across every city we monitor in Indonesia, day by day.

Daily highest and lowest temperature, last 30 days

Each bar runs from the coldest low (teal) to the hottest high (orange) recorded anywhere in Indonesia that day.

40°C17°C
16 Oct18 Oct

Worst air quality each day

16 Oct18 Oct
Hottest day on record
38°C / 101°F
Karawang · 17 Oct 2026
Coldest night on record
18°C / 65°F
Cimahi · 16 Oct 2026
Worst air on record
AQI 500+
Palangkaraya · 17 Oct 2026

Monitored cities, hottest first

Records since tracking began on 16 Oct 2026. Hourly modelled values from Open-Meteo, stored permanently by Open Earth.

Recent activity

Notable events in Indonesia in the last 90 days.

Strongest earthquakes on record

Magnitude 2.5 and above, since 1900.

Deadliest disasters in history

Damaging earthquakes, tsunamis and eruptions in Indonesia, from NOAA records going back centuries.

  • M9.1 earthquake, Sumatra: Aceh: Off West Coast

    26 December 2004Triggered a tsunami227,899 killed$10,000m damage

  • Tsunami, Tambora

    10 April 1815Waves up to 4 m60,000 killed

  • Tambora eruption (VEI 7)

    10 April 181560,000 killed

  • Krakatau eruption (VEI 6)

    27 August 188336,417 killed

  • Tsunami, Krakatau

    27 August 1883Waves up to 41 m36,417 killed

  • M7.3 earthquake, Bali

    22 November 1815Triggered a tsunami11,453 killed

  • Kelud eruption (VEI 5)

    158610,000 killed

  • M6.3 earthquake, Java: Bantul, Yogyakarta

    26 May 20066,234 killed38,568 injured127,000 homes destroyed$3,100m damage

  • M7.1 earthquake, New Guinea: Irian Jaya

    25 June 19766,000 killed

  • Kelud eruption (VEI 4)

    19 May 19195,110 killed9,000 homes destroyed

Satellite fire detections

Heat signatures spotted by NASA's VIIRS satellite instrument in Indonesia. These include wildfires, farm burning and industrial heat.

Satellite fire detections are being connected. Counts for Indonesia will appear here automatically once the feed starts.

Regions of Indonesia

38 regions and 447 towns tracked.