M 4.8 in Indonesia on 09 Aug 2026 21:42 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 1557136
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.1349 , 126.95
Event Date: 09 Aug 2026 21:42 UTC
10 Aug 2026 05:42 Local
Exposed Population:
220 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 09 Aug 2026 21:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000tjhn 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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Latest media headlines

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TEMPO.CO, Jakarta The Indonesian Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported that a magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck southeast of Enggano, Bengkulu, on Sunday at 22:15 WIB (Western Indonesia Time). The epicenter was locat
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5.1-magnitude quake hits Talaud Islands, Indonesia -- GFZ 8/9/2026 10:48:00 PM.

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted Talaud Islands, Indonesia at 2217 GMT on Sunday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined t
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5.1-magnitude quake hits Talaud Islands, Indonesia -- GFZ 8/9/2026 10:40:00 PM.

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted Talaud Islands, Indonesia at 2217 GMT on Sunday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined t
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5.1-magnitude quake hits Talaud Islands, Indonesia -- GFZ 8/9/2026 10:39:00 PM.

BEIJING, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 jolted Talaud Islands, Indonesia at 2217 GMT on Sunday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined t
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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),