M 5 in Indonesia on 18 Dec 2025 05:30 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 1515675
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 76.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.4024 , 125.7831
Event Date: 18 Dec 2025 05:30 UTC
18 Dec 2025 14:30 Local
Exposed Population:
30 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2025 05:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rvmc 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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),