Padangsidempuan

Earthquakes near Padangsidempuan through history

From 1900 to October 19, 2026, USGS recorded 5 earthquakes of magnitude 6 or more within 100 km of Padangsidempuan, or 200 km for magnitude 7 and above. The strongest on either list was an estimated magnitude 8 on February 10, 1797.

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The last 30 days · as of

USGS recorded no earthquake of magnitude 4.5 or more within 100 km of Padangsidempuan in the last 30 days.

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What the record holds

It was also the deadliest: NOAA records 300 deaths for it. NOAA’s list of significant earthquakes has 7 here, back to 1797. NOAA records deaths in 4 of the events here, 483 in all. The latest on NOAA’s list is a magnitude 5.4 on March 17, 2025 (41 km ENE of Sibolga, Indonesia). NOAA’s record here begins on February 10, 1797 with an earthquake. It grows thinner going back: 5 of the 7 significant earthquakes NOAA lists here are from 1927 on. NOAA lists 2 tsunamis from elsewhere that reached the coast within 100 km of Padangsidempuan with deaths or a metre of water or more. The highest water NOAA records here was 1.63 m, on December 26, 2004. NOAA lists one significant eruption of one volcano within 100 km of Padangsidempuan. The largest was Sorikmarapi on May 21, 1892, at 2 on the volcanic explosivity index. It killed 180 people by NOAA’s count.

The events

  • March 17, 2025Earthquake · M 5.441 km ENE of Sibolga, Indonesia · one death (NOAA)USGS · NOAA NCEI
  • December 26, 2004Tsunami · 1.63 m hereOff W. Coast Of SumatraNOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • December 28, 1935Earthquake · M 7.6212 km W of Pariaman, IndonesiaUSGS · NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • May 21, 1892Eruption · VEI 2Sorikmarapi · 180 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia
  • February 10, 1797Earthquake · M 8.0 (est.)300 deaths (NOAA)NOAA NCEI · Wikipedia

Good to know

  • An event counts for Padangsidempuan 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 here start at magnitude 6: the catalogue’s smaller quakes thin out going back, where few instruments listened.
  • 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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