M 5.9 in Indonesia on 15 May 2025 00:50 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 1481829
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 479.1 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.1693 , 126.1249
Event Date: 15 May 2025 00:50 UTC
15 May 2025 09:50 Local
Exposed Population: 40 thousand in MMI II
Inserted at: 15 May 2025 01:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000pzaa 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

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),