M 4.9 in Ethiopia on 26 Oct 2025 05:24 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 1507044
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 9.598 , 39.8762
Event Date: 26 Oct 2025 05:24 UTC
26 Oct 2025 08:24 Local
Exposed Population:
4 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 26 Oct 2025 05:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.8 (Ethiopia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rjiv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),