• Source: 2021 Bali earthquake

The 2021 Bali earthquake struck at 04:18 local time (UTC+08:00) when people were still sleeping on 15 October 2021. It resulted in 4 deaths and 73 more injured, despite having a moment magnitude of 4.7.




Tectonic setting


The island of Bali forms part of the Sunda Arc, which formed above the convergent boundary where the Australian plate is subducting beneath the Sunda plate. The rate of convergence across the line of the Sunda–Java Trench is 7.5 cm per year. Eastwards from Bali, the Sunda Arc is also being thrust over the Bali and Flores back-arc basins on a series of south-dipping thrusts. Focal mechanisms of earthquakes near Bali are dominantly thrust sense on both the subduction interface and the system of thrust faults to the north. In July and August 2018, a series of earthquakes, the strongest reaching 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale, killed nearly 600 people in the neighbouring island of Lombok. In January 1917, an earthquake measuring 6.6 killed more than 1,500 people, 80% of which from landslides.




Earthquake


According to officials at the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG), the earthquake, which was centred at the sloped of the volcanoes Mount Agung and Mount Batur, occurred on a shallow local fault. Rupture along the fault was caused by the migration of magma in the crust, triggering fault activity. The BMKG has ruled out the Flores Back Arc Thrust Fault as the source of the quake due to the strike-slip focal mechanism indicated by the seismological data.
Instrumental seismic intensities measured by the BMKG suggest the quake only caused light shaking in Bali, but was felt as far as Lombok. At Denpasar, Karangasem, and northern Lombok the earthquake was felt lightly by residents at IV on the Mercalli intensity scale.




Impact


Most of the damage was observed in the Ban Village, Kubu District, Ppatan Village, Rendang District and Karangasem Regency. Many religious and historical structures were mildly to severely damaged. Four people were confirmed dead, one of them being a three-year-old girl who was hit by falling debris. The other three deaths were from a landslide. Seventy-three people were injured, suffering head injuries or broken bones. Most of the injured were treated at the Kubu Pratama and Karangasem hospitals where they were discharged. Three remained hospitalized for their serious injuries. At least 762 buildings were damaged, 101 of which were religious.




See also


List of earthquakes in 2021
List of earthquakes in Indonesia
1976 Bali earthquake
1815 Bali earthquake




References

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• Gempa bumi Karangasem 2021
• Daftar gempa bumi tahun 2024
• Gempa bumi Bali 1976
• Gempa bumi Bali 1979
• Gempa bumi Bali 1815
• Gempa bumi dan tsunami Tōhoku 2011
• Daftar gempa bumi di Indonesia
• Gempa bumi Lombok Juli 2018
• Indonesia
• Zona subduksi Selat Sunda
• 2021 Bali earthquake
• Bali earthquake
• 1815 Bali earthquake
• List of earthquakes in 2021
• List of earthquakes 2021–2030
• 2021 Haiti earthquake
• List of earthquakes in 2024
• 2021 Assam earthquake
• 2021 East Java earthquake
• 2021 Chignik earthquake