M 5.9 in Indonesia on 06 Feb 2026 21:20 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 1523240
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 27.1 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.7516 , 130.1235
Event Date: 06 Feb 2026 21:20 UTC
07 Feb 2026 06:20 Local
Exposed Population: 2 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 06 Feb 2026 21:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000s711 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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ISTANBUL: A strong 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s Tanimbar Islands in Maluku province early Saturday (Feb 7), according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), Anadolu Ajansi (AA) reported. The quake took place in Pulau Tanimbar at
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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 to
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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),