M 4.9 in Indonesia on 20 Sep 2025 06:54 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 1501190
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.813 , 127.8489
Event Date: 20 Sep 2025 06:54 UTC
20 Sep 2025 15:54 Local
Exposed Population:
3 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 20 Sep 2025 07:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qxir 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

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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),