Earthquakes today

Current and latest world earthquakes breaking news, activity and articles today

Light World Earthquakes Magnitude 4-4.9

Light earthquake, 4.5 mag was detected near Banda Aceh in Indonesia


Earthquake location 4.982S, 94.6883WA light earthquake magnitude 4.5 (ml/mb) strikes 94 kilometers (58 miles) from Banda Aceh in Indonesia on Friday. Unique identifier: us6000rkmk. Ids that are associated to the event: us6000rkmk. Exact time and date of event in UTC/GMT: 10/10/25 / 2025-10-10 06:35:09 / October 10, 2025 @ 6:35 am. Exact location of earthquake, 94.6883° East, 4.982° North, depth 60.668 km. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 60.668 km (38 miles) below the earth’s surface. The 4.5-magnitude earthquake has occurred at 06:35:09 / 6:35 am (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist).

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Banda Aceh. Epicenter of the earthquake was 95 km (59 miles) from Banda Aceh (c. 250 800 pop). Nearby country/countries that might be effected, Indonesia (c. 242 968 000 pop).

In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days fifteen earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected in the same area. There are an estimated 13,000 light earthquakes in the world each year. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

How would you describe the shaking?

Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 94 km SW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

Copyright © 2025 earthquakenewstoday.com All rights reserved.


More information

Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.5 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 94.6883° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 4.982° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 60.668 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 94 km SW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2025-10-10 06:35:09 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2025-11-01 12:33:19 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 312 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used 40 The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 2.263 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 0.54 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 138 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us6000rkmk Id of event.
Event Code 6000rkmk An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us6000rkmk, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

Leave a Reply