RSS feed source: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program

Tue, 23 Sep 2025, 01:40 | BY: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR

Just 17 minutes ago, a 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Rantauprapat, Labuhan Batu Regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The tremor was recorded in the morning on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2025, at 8:22 am local time, at a great depth of 524. km below the surface.
The event was filed by the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake, the first seismological agency to report it.
According to preliminary calculations, we do not expect that the quake was felt by many people and did not cause any damage. In Rantauprapat (pop. 103,000, 91 km away), Bandar (pop. 31,400, 102 km away), Tanjungbalai (pop. 183,200, 107 km away), Teluk Nibung (pop. 25,100, 108 km away), and Klang (pop. 879,900, 117 km away), the quake was probably not felt.
VolcanoDiscovery will automatically update magnitude and depth if these change and follow up if other significant news about the quake become available. If you’re in the area, please send us your experience through our reporting mechanism, either online or via our mobile app. This will help us provide more first-hand updates to anyone around the globe who wants to know more about this quake.

If you felt it, report it through our site or app right now!

Download and Upgrade the Volcanoes & Earthquakes app to get one of the fastest seismic alerts online:
Android | IOS
Earthquake data:

I felt

Click this link to continue reading the article on the source website.

RSS feed source: USGS Earthquake Hazards Program

Tue, 23 Sep 2025, 00:24 | BY: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR

Worldwide earthquakes above magnitude 3 during the past 24 hours on 23 Sep 2025

Summary: 12 quakes 5.0+, 61 quakes 4.0+, 133 quakes 3.0+, 388 quakes 2.0+ (594 total)
Magnitude 5+: 12 earthquakes
Magnitude 4+: 61 earthquakes
Magnitude 3+: 133 earthquakes
Magnitude 2+: 388 earthquakes
No quakes of magnitude 6 or higherTotal seismic energy estimate: 8.5 x 1013 joules (23.6 gigawatt hours, equivalent to 20290 tons of TNT or 1.3 atomic bombs!) | equivalent to ONE quake of magnitude 6.1 learn more10 largest earthquakes in the world (22 Sep 2025)#1: Mag 5.6 North Pacific Ocean, 196 km south of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, RussiaTuesday, Sep 23, 2025, at 05:18 am (GMT +11) – #2: Mag 5.5 North Pacific Ocean, 192 km south of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, RussiaTuesday, Sep 23, 2025, at 03:28 am (GMT +11) – #3: Mag 5.4 North Pacific Ocean, MexicoMonday, Sep 22, 2025, at 07:24 am (GMT -7) – #4: Mag 5.3 173 km southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, RussiaTuesday, Sep 23, 2025, at 05:46 am (GMT +11) – #5: Mag 5.2 Ucayali, PeruMonday, Sep 22, 2025, at 03:48 pm (Lima time) – #6: Mag 5.1 South Pacific Ocean, Arequipa, 49 km south of Minas de Marcona, Ica, PeruMonday, Sep 22, 2025, at 01:46 pm (Lima time) – #7: Mag 5.1 North Pacific Ocean, 163 km south of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Kamchatka, RussiaTuesday, Sep

Click this link to continue reading the article on the source website.