It was assigned VIII (Severe) to IX (Violent) on the Modified Mercalli intensity scale.

Vibrations were also detected by people as far as Tegal in Central Java and Lampung on the neighboring island of Sumatra.

A postal station in the city was buried under a landslide, killing five people and ten horses.

The simulation also predicted severe to violent shaking in Banten, Karawang, and Tegal but no descriptions of extensive damage was reported there, possibly due to historical bias.

[4] A simulation estimates that if an earthquake of the same intensity occurred today it would cause around 40,000 deaths.