M 4.9 in Indonesia on 12 Jul 2026 00:43 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 1551370
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 41.8 Km
Lat/Lon: 3.6769 , 127.0246
Event Date: 12 Jul 2026 00:43 UTC
12 Jul 2026 08:43 Local
Exposed Population:
50 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 12 Jul 2026 01:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000szsv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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5.2-magnitude quake hits Talaud Islands, Indonesia -- GFZ 7/11/2026 7:06:00 PM.

BEIJING, July 12 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Talaud Islands, Indonesia at 1749 GMT on Saturday, the GFZ German....
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),