Overall Green Earthquake alert in Indonesia on 12 Aug 2025 08:24 UTC

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M 6.3 in Indonesia on 12 Aug 2025 08:24 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 1495314
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.3M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-2.057 , 138.9733
Event Date:	12 Aug 2025 08:24 UTC 12 Aug 2025 17:24 Local
Exposed Population:	10 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at:	12 Aug 2025 08:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.8 (Indonesia)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		Tsunami		GDACS score
NEIC	0.7		0		0.7
us6000r01m	Scaled population (raster)	3.13	Max wave alert	0m
	C1 shakemap	-1.73	Max wave realtime	0m
	C2 shakemap	0.79
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0.96

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Indonesia - Earthquake (ECHO 18 Aug 2025)Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:22

An earthquake of 6.3 M at a depth of 10 km occurred across far eastern Indonesia on 12 August at 8.24 UTC (17.24 local time). The epicentre was located inland in the northern Papua province, close to the coast and to the border with Papua New Guinea, approximately 6 km south of the Arara town and 190 km west of the Jayapura city. Three aftershocks from 4.8 M to 5.1 M have been recorded in the area on the same day as the main event.
USGS PAGER estimates that up to 6,000 people were exposed to very strong shaking and up to 18,000 to strong shaking.
Media report, as of 13 August, some damaged buildings in the area of the Upper Tor district, Sarmi regency, Papua province.

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (92), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),

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