M 5.5 in Indonesia on 05 Feb 2025 03:12 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 1465995
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 104.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.5585 , 127.1409
Event Date: 05 Feb 2025 03:12 UTC
05 Feb 2025 12:12 Local
Exposed Population: 780 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 05 Feb 2025 04:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000pbdp Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),