M 5.4 in Iceland on 29 Oct 2025 16:46 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 1507778
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 64.7442 , -17.0859
Event Date: 29 Oct 2025 16:46 UTC
29 Oct 2025 16:46 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 29 Oct 2025 17:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.9 (Iceland)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rk65 Scaled population (raster) 0.78  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.62  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),