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Earthquakes in West Papua

9,213 earthquakes catalogued in and around West Papua between 1901 and 2026. Recorded measurements; not a forecast.

Last updated 4 August 2026 · merged from 5 catalogues
3.0
Latest earthquake · depth 4 km
03.08.2026 19:32 UTC · from centre 353 km
9,213
recorded earthquakes
M8.6
largest
1901–2026
record span
3.94
mean magnitude
7,536
epicentre inside the border

By year

Stacked by magnitude; one column per year.

04589171901: 1 (M5+)19011902: 1 (M5+)1904: 2 (M5+)1906: 1 (M5+)19111915: 1 (M5+)1916: 3 (M5+)1917: 1 (M5+)1918: 1 (M5+)1920: 3 (M5+)1921: 1 (M5+)19211923: 1 (M5+)1924: 1 (M5+)1925: 2 (M5+)1926: 2 (M5+)1927: 3 (M5+)1928: 1 (M5+)1929: 4 (M5+)1930: 4 (M5+)19311932: 3 (M5+)1933: 3 (M5+)1934: 4 (M5+)1936: 2 (M5+)1937: 4 (M5+)1938: 3 (M5+)1939: 1 (M5+)1940: 1 (M5+)1941: 3 (M5+)19411942: 1 (M5+)1943: 1 (M5+)1944: 3 (M5+)1947: 2 (M5+)1949: 2 (M5+)1950: 1 (M5+)1951: 2 (M5+)19511954: 1 (M5+)1955: 1 (M5+)1957: 1 (M5+)1958: 1 (M5+)1959: 5 (M5+)1960: 3 (M5+)19611962: 1 (M5+)1963: 4 (M4–5)1963: 6 (M5+)1964: 4 (M5+)1965: 2 (M4–5)1965: 6 (M5+)1966: 5 (M5+)1967: 2 (M4–5)1967: 6 (M5+)1968: 1 (M4–5)1968: 6 (M5+)1969: 4 (M5+)1970: 1 (M4–5)1970: 5 (M5+)1971: 1 (M5+)19711972: 5 (M5+)1973: 9 (M4–5)1973: 21 (M5+)1974: 7 (M4–5)1974: 6 (M5+)1975: 5 (M4–5)1975: 13 (M5+)1976: 7 (M4–5)1976: 13 (M5+)1977: 9 (M4–5)1977: 13 (M5+)1978: 3 (M4–5)1978: 12 (M5+)1979: 2 (M3–4)1979: 17 (M4–5)1979: 13 (M5+)1980: 2 (M3–4)1980: 14 (M4–5)1980: 12 (M5+)1981: 1 (M3–4)1981: 14 (M4–5)1981: 7 (M5+)19811982: 2 (M3–4)1982: 24 (M4–5)1982: 13 (M5+)1983: 11 (M4–5)1983: 8 (M5+)1984: 3 (M3–4)1984: 31 (M4–5)1984: 12 (M5+)1985: 4 (M3–4)1985: 23 (M4–5)1985: 17 (M5+)1986: 4 (M3–4)1986: 29 (M4–5)1986: 9 (M5+)1987: 5 (M3–4)1987: 30 (M4–5)1987: 11 (M5+)1988: 2 (M3–4)1988: 33 (M4–5)1988: 10 (M5+)1989: 1 (M<3)1989: 4 (M3–4)1989: 52 (M4–5)1989: 13 (M5+)1990: 1 (M3–4)1990: 28 (M4–5)1990: 6 (M5+)1991: 36 (M4–5)1991: 24 (M5+)19911992: 31 (M4–5)1992: 17 (M5+)1993: 41 (M4–5)1993: 24 (M5+)1994: 22 (M4–5)1994: 27 (M5+)1995: 4 (M3–4)1995: 103 (M4–5)1995: 28 (M5+)1996: 18 (M3–4)1996: 137 (M4–5)1996: 6 (M5+)1997: 31 (M3–4)1997: 80 (M4–5)1997: 5 (M5+)1998: 26 (M3–4)1998: 59 (M4–5)1998: 6 (M5+)1999: 18 (M3–4)1999: 130 (M4–5)1999: 15 (M5+)2000: 23 (M3–4)2000: 65 (M4–5)2000: 6 (M5+)2001: 23 (M3–4)2001: 90 (M4–5)2001: 7 (M5+)20012002: 32 (M3–4)2002: 334 (M4–5)2002: 31 (M5+)2003: 19 (M<3)2003: 20 (M3–4)2003: 163 (M4–5)2003: 21 (M5+)2004: 10 (M<3)2004: 51 (M3–4)2004: 266 (M4–5)2004: 49 (M5+)2005: 13 (M3–4)2005: 45 (M4–5)2005: 5 (M5+)2006: 2 (M<3)2006: 46 (M3–4)2006: 113 (M4–5)2006: 6 (M5+)2007: 4 (M<3)2007: 37 (M3–4)2007: 89 (M4–5)2007: 4 (M5+)2008: 3 (M<3)2008: 38 (M3–4)2008: 48 (M4–5)2008: 7 (M5+)2009: 105 (M3–4)2009: 507 (M4–5)2009: 56 (M5+)2010: 32 (M3–4)2010: 67 (M4–5)2010: 14 (M5+)2011: 24 (M3–4)2011: 91 (M4–5)2011: 7 (M5+)20112012: 29 (M3–4)2012: 105 (M4–5)2012: 22 (M5+)2013: 25 (M3–4)2013: 63 (M4–5)2013: 10 (M5+)2014: 30 (M3–4)2014: 71 (M4–5)2014: 9 (M5+)2015: 29 (M3–4)2015: 173 (M4–5)2015: 11 (M5+)2016: 39 (M3–4)2016: 74 (M4–5)2016: 12 (M5+)2017: 48 (M3–4)2017: 88 (M4–5)2017: 9 (M5+)2018: 39 (M3–4)2018: 74 (M4–5)2018: 15 (M5+)2019: 1 (M<3)2019: 67 (M3–4)2019: 87 (M4–5)2019: 9 (M5+)2020: 51 (M<3)2020: 231 (M3–4)2020: 121 (M4–5)2020: 12 (M5+)2021: 69 (M<3)2021: 227 (M3–4)2021: 135 (M4–5)2021: 13 (M5+)20212022: 65 (M<3)2022: 217 (M3–4)2022: 106 (M4–5)2022: 2 (M5+)2023: 75 (M<3)2023: 274 (M3–4)2023: 96 (M4–5)2023: 8 (M5+)2024: 50 (M<3)2024: 246 (M3–4)2024: 86 (M4–5)2024: 9 (M5+)2025: 316 (M<3)2025: 444 (M3–4)2025: 103 (M4–5)2025: 14 (M5+)2026: 559 (M<3)2026: 312 (M3–4)2026: 43 (M4–5)2026: 3 (M5+)
M<3M3–4M4–5M5+

Read this chart carefully. Rising columns do not mean earthquakes are becoming more frequent. The monitoring network improved over time: the smallest detectable earthquake in Türkiye was about M5.0 in 1966 and is M1.5 today. Earlier years look quiet because small events were not heard, not because they did not happen.

Largest earthquakes

Inclusion rule: the radius widens with magnitude (15 km up to M4, 150 km at M7 and above). This is not a measure of felt shaking or intensity.

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
8.601.02.1938 19:0425 km394 km
7.713.01.1916 08:2025 km390 km
7.703.01.2009 19:4328.9 km122 km
7.606.11.1943 08:3115 km476 km
7.510.10.2002 10:5023.6 km198 km
7.512.09.1979 05:1730 km388 km
7.403.01.2009 22:3334.6 km140 km
7.322.06.1957 23:5059.1 km457 km
7.313.01.1916 06:1825 km401 km
7.307.02.2004 02:4219.1 km395 km
7.207.10.1923 03:2915 km330 km
7.210.11.1925 13:5015 km234 km
7.227.05.1947 05:5815 km279 km
7.227.04.1944 14:3815 km185 km
7.228.03.1902 14:440 km188 km

Latest earthquakes

MagnitudeDateDepthDistance
3.003.08.2026 19:324 km353 km
2.803.08.2026 08:5730 km286 km
3.303.08.2026 05:1210 km197 km
3.603.08.2026 03:2010 km276 km
3.503.08.2026 01:2015 km283 km
2.502.08.2026 18:3455 km285 km
2.502.08.2026 15:5645 km281 km
2.602.08.2026 14:0922 km277 km
2.902.08.2026 13:5411 km318 km
2.502.08.2026 10:0935 km294 km
2.602.08.2026 07:375 km288 km
3.302.08.2026 07:183 km290 km
2.602.08.2026 07:1445 km284 km
3.302.08.2026 03:5916 km283 km
2.701.08.2026 22:105 km283 km
2.801.08.2026 22:027 km283 km
2.601.08.2026 16:0911 km277 km
2.501.08.2026 13:4539 km296 km
4.001.08.2026 12:3012 km256 km
3.101.08.2026 11:0634 km295 km
2.801.08.2026 10:0617 km285 km
2.701.08.2026 09:3517 km285 km
3.701.08.2026 09:1430 km290 km
2.501.08.2026 09:05181 km301 km
3.001.08.2026 07:3916 km277 km
2.501.08.2026 06:0010 km148 km
2.701.08.2026 05:555 km285 km
3.201.08.2026 05:269 km248 km
3.401.08.2026 04:1134 km293 km
2.801.08.2026 03:3524 km286 km
2.801.08.2026 03:2511 km279 km
2.601.08.2026 02:5010 km148 km
2.801.08.2026 02:3010 km286 km
2.901.08.2026 01:5056 km297 km
2.701.08.2026 01:3713 km289 km
2.701.08.2026 00:5219 km315 km
2.601.08.2026 00:4237 km291 km
2.831.07.2026 23:5732 km296 km
2.731.07.2026 23:5438 km289 km
2.931.07.2026 23:4668 km304 km
2.931.07.2026 23:4130 km290 km
3.031.07.2026 23:3028 km292 km
3.131.07.2026 23:2813 km285 km
5.131.07.2026 23:1710 km305 km
5.131.07.2026 23:153.9 km292 km
3.531.07.2026 23:1413 km289 km
3.831.07.2026 22:1813 km279 km
2.631.07.2026 22:1292 km293 km
3.731.07.2026 22:0219 km283 km
3.231.07.2026 21:5626 km284 km
3.531.07.2026 21:4611 km278 km
3.331.07.2026 21:4317 km285 km
4.131.07.2026 21:3213 km281 km
2.731.07.2026 21:3033 km302 km
3.131.07.2026 21:1617 km285 km
4.431.07.2026 21:1010 km292 km
3.231.07.2026 20:5713 km288 km
3.831.07.2026 20:548 km283 km
3.531.07.2026 20:485 km294 km
2.531.07.2026 20:4643 km302 km

Method and sources

What this page counts
An earthquake appears here when its epicentre is within a magnitude-dependent distance of this place's border: 15 km up to M4, 30 km to M5, 60 km to M6, 100 km to M7, and 150 km at M7 and above. The rule exists because a large earthquake concerns neighbouring provinces too — the 17 August 1999 epicentre was in the Gulf of İzmit, on no province's land at all.
Location precision
Epicentre uncertainty is typically 1–10 km, and larger for older records. That is why this site breaks data down to districts but not to neighbourhoods or villages — the data does not support that distinction.
Magnitude scales
The catalogues use more than twelve magnitude scales (Mw, ML, mb, Md…) and they are not equivalent. Values are shown on the scale the source reported; they are not converted.
Deduplication
The same earthquake is published by several catalogues. Records within 20 seconds and 100 km whose magnitudes differ by no more than 1.2 are treated as one event; the primary record is chosen by catalogue priority.
Updates
Recent earthquakes are fetched from four sources every five minutes. The historical archive is rebuilt infrequently.
Sources
USGS ComCat · ISC Bulletin · AFAD · Kandilli / KOERI · EMSC/CSEM
Reporting an error
If you spot a wrong record, write to us; we verify against the source and correct it.