M 5.9 in Indonesia on 22 May 2026 01:05 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 1541847
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.0433 , 126.067
Event Date: 22 May 2026 01:05 UTC
22 May 2026 10:05 Local
Exposed Population: 200 thousand in MMI>=IV
Inserted at: 22 May 2026 05:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000szdy 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

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),