Moderate earthquake of magnitude 4.5 just reported 68 km southwest of Langsa, Indonesia

Just 9 minutes ago, a 4.5-magnitude earthquake struck near Langsa, Kota Langsa, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province, Indonesia. The tremor was recorded early afternoon on Friday, December 26th, 2025, at 2:47 pm local time, at a shallow depth of 10. km below the surface.
The event was filed by Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency, the first seismological agency to report it.
Our monitoring service identified a second report from the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake which listed the quake at magnitude 4.5 as well.
Towns or cities near the epicenter where the quake might have been felt as very weak shaking include Langsa (pop. 194,700) located 68 km from the epicenter, Blangpidie (pop. 24,100) 81 km away, and Pangkalan Brandan (pop. 25,500) 91 km away.
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Earthquake data:
Date & time: Dec 26, 2025 02:47 pm (Jakarta time) local time (26 Dec 2025 07:47 GMT)
Magnitude: 4.5
Depth: 10.00 km
Epicenter latitude / longitude: 4.12°N / 97.46°E (Kabupaten Gayo Lues, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province, Indonesia)
Primary data source: BMKG
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