M 5.6 in Indonesia on 24 Jul 2025 13:08 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 1491791
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 34.7 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.9968 , 120.6784
Event Date: 24 Jul 2025 13:08 UTC
24 Jul 2025 21:08 Local
Exposed Population: 8 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 24 Jul 2025 14:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000qulk Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. 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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),