Banda Aceh

Earthquakes near Banda Aceh, 2017–2026

From 2017 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 57 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Banda Aceh, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. None reached magnitude 6: the strongest was a magnitude 5.5 on July 5, 2025 (50 km NNW of Sabang, Indonesia).

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded 2 earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Banda Aceh in the last 30 days.

The latest: magnitude 4.5 on October 8 (70 km W of Banda Aceh, Indonesia). The strongest: magnitude 5.3 on October 3 (81 km SSW of Banda Aceh, Indonesia).

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What the record holds

2025 had the most magnitude 4.5+ earthquakes: 19 of the 57.

The events

  • July 5, 2025Earthquake · M 5.550 km NNW of Sabang, IndonesiaUSGS
  • February 15, 2017Earthquake · M 5.415 km SE of Sigli, IndonesiaUSGS

Good to know

  • An event counts for Banda Aceh when it began within 100 km of its centre, or 200 km for an earthquake of magnitude 7 or more. Damage can reach further.
  • USGS counts are its ComCat catalogue’s earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 or more, aftershocks included.
  • NOAA lists significant events only: earthquakes that killed, did about $1 million of damage, reached magnitude 7.5 or intensity X, or raised a tsunami, and eruptions and tsunamis by like measures. Magnitudes before 1900 are its estimates from written accounts.
  • Deaths are NOAA’s total for each event, wherever people died, its tsunami and fires included. A tsunami counts the dead its runup records give for this place: NOAA’s total for a tsunami includes its source quake’s.
  • A tsunami from elsewhere counts where one of its runups killed or rose a metre or more.
  • Counted to October 19, 2026, as is the map. The last 30 days ask USGS again.

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