M 4.9 in Indonesia on 03 Sep 2025 16:41 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 1498742
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 16.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.7907 , 139.0965
Event Date: 03 Sep 2025 16:41 UTC
04 Sep 2025 01:41 Local
Exposed Population:
6 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 03 Sep 2025 17:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qtk7 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),