M 4.8 in Indonesia on 20 Oct 2025 22:31 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 1506236
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 514.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.8516 , 125.7785
Event Date: 20 Oct 2025 22:31 UTC
21 Oct 2025 07:31 Local
Exposed Population:
9 thousand in MMI I
Inserted at: 20 Oct 2025 23:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rid1 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),