M 4.8 in Indonesia on 29 Jul 2026 02:40 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 1554798
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.5506 , 138.8737
Event Date: 29 Jul 2026 02:40 UTC
29 Jul 2026 11:40 Local
Exposed Population:
160 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 29 Jul 2026 03:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000tgjx 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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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),