M 5.9 in Indonesia on 04 Apr 2026 01:35 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 1533130
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 48.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.1109 , 126.0732
Event Date: 04 Apr 2026 01:35 UTC
04 Apr 2026 10:35 Local
Exposed Population: 530 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 04 Apr 2026 01:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000smgy 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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Latest media headlines

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VP Gibran visits quake-hit church in North Sulawesi 4/7/2026 6:26:00 AM.

Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka greets residents during a visit to the quake-damaged Bunda Hati Kudus Yesus Catholic Church in Minahasa, North Sulawesi, on April 7, 2026. (ANTARA/Karel A Polakitan) Manado (ANTARA) - Indonesian Vice P
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Vice President Gibran visits quake-hit community in North Sulawesi 4/7/2026 5:27:00 AM.

Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka visits the home of an elderly person killed in a recent earthquake in Minahasa District, North Sulawesi, on Monday night (April 6, 2026). ANTARA/HO-Vice Presidential Secretariat. Jakarta (ANTARA) - Vic
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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),