M 5.8 in Indonesia on 16 Aug 2025 22:38 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a high humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1496100
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.2569 , 120.7409
Event Date: 16 Aug 2025 22:38 UTC
17 Aug 2025 06:38 Local
Exposed Population: 130 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 16 Aug 2025 22:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 2.2 2.2
us6000r1n3 Scaled population (raster) 5.13  
  C1 shakemap -1.73  
  C2 shakemap 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Indonesia - Earthquake, update (ECHO 25 Aug 2025)Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:43

  • After the earthquake of 5.8 M (depth of 10 km) occurred in central-northern Sulawesi Island (central Indonesia) on 16 August at 22.38 UTC, more casualties and damage were reported across the affected area.
  • The ASEAN Disaster Information Network (ADINet) reports, as at 20 August, two fatalities, 44 injured people, 89 evacuated people and a total of 433 affected people across Poso regency (southern Central Sulawesi province). In addition, ADINet also reports 70 totally damaged houses, 124 partially damaged houses and three damaged schools.
Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),