M 6.2 in Indonesia on 14 May 2026 17:53 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 1540730
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 146.1 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.198 , 130.3702
Event Date: 14 May 2026 17:53 UTC
15 May 2026 02:53 Local
Exposed Population: 10 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 14 May 2026 18:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000sxqf Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  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)

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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 (90), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4),