M 4.6 in Indonesia on 17 Jun 2025 14:21 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 1486350
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 20.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.3668 , 117.8199
Event Date: 17 Jun 2025 14:21 UTC
17 Jun 2025 22:21 Local
Exposed Population:
3 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 17 Jun 2025 17:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000qktm Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),