Halmahera Sea

IHO sea area 48e · 128° to 131° E, -2° to 2° N

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last 12 months
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archive messages
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What the archive shows

23 messages are recorded since 1999-12-28 for the Halmahera Sea. The selection uses the IHO sea area; a message may describe an exercise, equipment outage or continuing operation as well as a hazard report.

Quakes accounts for 10 of 23 recorded messages (43%), the largest category group in this selection.

The NGA historical archive froze in 2024-05; live collection began 2026-08-17. Counts around that gap are incomplete, and changes in reporting volume do not establish changes in incident frequency.

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Nothing in force in this sea right now.

By year

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By category · available archive

Quakes1043%
Incidents939%
Cable ops313%
Derelicts14%

Archive · 23 cancelled

  1. USGS-US7000TDAV · Quakes2026-09-01 → 2026-09-04
    An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 occurs 82 kilometers southeast of Maba, Indonesia, at depth 10 kilometers on 1 September at 0822 UTC.
  2. HYDROPAC 555/24 · Incidents2024-02-16 → 2024-02-21
    Man overboard from M/V km sinabung at 141100Z feb in vicinity 00-56.85S 129-30.00E
  3. HYDROPAC 2556/23 · Derelicts2023-08-08 → 2023-08-12
    Vessel km sahabat, disabled due to engine failure in 00-48.40S 128-54.00E
  4. HYDROPAC 3707/20 · Incidents2020-12-15 → 2020-12-16
    Vessel najwa unreported tobelo (01-44.1N 128-00.9E) to daruba (02-03.0N 128-17.4E)
  5. HYDROPAC 10/20 · Incidents2020-01-01 → 2020-01-24
    Vessel, 60 persons on board, disabled and taking on water in 01-38.1N 128-16.1E
  6. USGS-US70005GE3 · Quakes2019-09-14 → 2019-09-17
    218 km sse of sofifi, indonesia
  7. HYDROPAC 2941/19 · Incidents2019-09-08 → 2019-09-27
    Distress signal received from M/V nur allya, red and blue hull, in 01-08-48S 128-00-38E
  8. HYDROPAC 2818/19 · Incidents2019-08-29 → 2019-09-02
    Distress signal received from M/V nur allya, red and blue hull, in 01-18-48S 128-38-24E
  9. HYDROPAC 2762/19 · Incidents2019-08-25 → 2019-08-26
    Distress signal received from M/V nur allya, red and blue hull, in vicinity 01-18-48N 128-38-24E at 250810Z…
  10. HYDROPAC 1323/19 · Incidents2019-04-19 → 2019-04-20
    Vessel dustie diamond, four persons on board, requesting assistance in vicinity 01-00S 130-00E at 190256Z apr
  11. HYDROPAC 3504/18 · Incidents2018-09-24 → 2018-10-12
    Man overboard from M/V tatamelau in vicinity 01-00.06S 130-02.75E at 212300Z sep
  12. HYDROPAC 4593/17 · Incidents2017-12-27 → 2018-01-12
    Man overboard from M/V black manta 720 in vicinity 01-01.9S 130-24.0E
  13. USGS-US200050WC · Quakes2016-02-17 → 2016-02-20
    151 km se of tobelo, indonesia
  14. HYDROPAC 2139/10 · Cable ops2010-10-15 → 2010-12-01
    Seismic survey in progress until 30 nov by M/V geowave champion towing ten 7200 meter long cables in area…
  15. USGS-USP000HKJN · Quakes2010-09-11 → 2010-09-14
    225 km w of sorong, indonesia
  16. HYDROPAC 1778/10 · Cable ops2010-09-03 → 2010-09-05
    Seismic survey in progress until 15 oct by geowave champion towing ten 7200 meter long cables in area bound…
  17. HYDROPAC 51/10 · Cable ops2010-01-11 → 2010-02-15
    Seismic survey in progress until 150001Z feb by M/V akademik fersman towing 8500 meter long cable in area…
  18. USGS-USP000C4KX · Quakes2003-08-11 → 2003-08-14
    56 km sse of tobelo, indonesia
  19. USGS-USP000C4KV · Quakes2003-08-11 → 2003-08-14
    66 km sse of tobelo, indonesia
  20. USGS-USP000B0W6 · Quakes2002-03-23 → 2002-03-26
    38 km sse of tobelo, indonesia

Sea boundaries: Flanders Marine Institute (2018), IHO Sea Areas v3, marineregions.org (CC BY 4.0). Not for navigation — follow official NAVAREA / coastal broadcasts.