M 5.8 in Indonesia on 23 Aug 2025 12:24 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 1497155
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 2.1052 , 96.6914
Event Date: 23 Aug 2025 12:24 UTC
23 Aug 2025 19:24 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 23 Aug 2025 12:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000r3bg Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 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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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),