M 5.8 in Indonesia on 05 Feb 2026 18:06 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 1523056
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 40 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.7865 , 111.2264
Event Date: 05 Feb 2026 18:06 UTC
06 Feb 2026 01:06 Local
Exposed Population: 7.7 million in MMI IV
Inserted at: 05 Feb 2026 19:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000s6ne Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Urgent: 5.9-magnitude quake hits Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia -- GFZ 2/6/2026 10:10:00 PM.

BEIJING, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 jolted Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia at 2120 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German....
5.9-magnitude quake hits Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia -- GFZ 2/6/2026 9:51:00 PM.

Beijing: An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 jolted Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia at 2120 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined to be at 7.92 degre
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Significant magnitude 5.8 quake hits 124 km west of Saumlaki, Indonesi.. 2/6/2026 9:47:00 PM.

A rare type of deep underground earthquake occurring in the Earth''s mantle, which can trigger dangerous surface quakes, has finally been isolated and mapped by Stanford researchers. The earthquakes in question, known as continental mantle
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Urgent: 5.9-magnitude quake hits Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia -- GFZ 2/6/2026 9:40:00 PM.

BEIJING, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 jolted Tanimbar Islands, Indonesia at 2120 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was initially determined
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),