M 4.6 in Indonesia on 22 Dec 2025 17:29 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1516290
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 70.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.1494 , 131.2239
Event Date: 22 Dec 2025 17:29 UTC
23 Dec 2025 02:29 Local
Exposed Population:
3 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 22 Dec 2025 17:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000rk45 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

By candlelight and broken ground, a Sumatra church finds Christmas aga.. 12/25/2025 9:33:00 AM.

SOUTH TAPANULI, Dec 25 — At a church in Sumatra, dozens of worshippers sang hymns at a Christmas mass, gathered together for their first service since deadly floods swept the Indonesian island. The Angkola Protestant Church, in the hard-hit
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''Starting anew'': Indonesians in disaster-struck Sumatra hold Christm.. 12/25/2025 9:31:00 AM.

At a church in Sumatra, dozens of worshippers sang hymns at a Christmas mass, gathered together for their first service since deadly floods swept the Indonesian island. The Angkola Protestant Church, in the hard-hit South Tapanuli district,
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''Starting anew'': Indonesians in disaster-struck Sumatra hold Christm.. 12/25/2025 8:50:00 AM.

South Tapanuli, Indonesia, Dec 25 (AFP) Dec 25, 2025 At a church in Sumatra, dozens of worshippers sang hymns at a Christmas mass, gathered together for their first service since deadly floods swept the Indonesian island. The Angkola Protes
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‘Starting anew’: Indonesians in disaster-struck Sumatra hold Christmas.. 12/25/2025 8:13:00 AM.

At a church in Sumatra, dozens of worshippers sang hymns at a Christmas mass, gathered together for their first service since deadly floods swept the Indonesian island. The Angkola Protestant Church, in the hard-hit South Tapanuli district,
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),