M 4.5 in Indonesia on 30 Dec 2025 13:43 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 1517364
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.6444 , 96.8231
Event Date: 30 Dec 2025 13:43 UTC
30 Dec 2025 20:43 Local
Exposed Population:
30 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 30 Dec 2025 17:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000rlim Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

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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),