Several factors led to a disproportionate amount of damage and number of casualties for the size of the shock, with more than 5,700 dead, tens of … The 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake (also known as the Bantul earthquake) occurred at 05:54 local time on 27 May with a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging). The earthquake's size estimates vary si... [3] We analyze Rayleigh and body waves of the 2006 Java event and find that rupture was unusually long (∼185 s) and propagated slowly (1.0–1.5 … ). On 27 May 2006, a shallow 6.3 magnitude earthquake near the city of Yogyakarta in central Java killed more than 6,000 people and displaced more than 200,000. The 17 July 2006 Java earthquake involved thrust faulting in the Java trench and excited a deadly tsunami (∼5–8 m) that inundated the southern coast of Java. The 2006 earthquake occurred about 500 km to the west of a former strong earthquake that struck eastern Java in 1994 (M w = 7.9), and that similarly had triggered an important tsunami (Maramai & Tinti 1997; Abercrombie et al. The 2006 Pangandaran earthquake and tsunami occurred on July 17 at 15:19:27 local time along a subduction zone off the coast of west and central Java, a large and densely populated island in the Indonesian archipelago. A major earthquake A major earthquake (magnitude 7.8) on 2 June 1994 generated a tsunami that killed more than 200 people.