M 5.8 in Indonesia on 23 Jul 2026 22:58 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 1553664
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 49.2 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.592 , 126.2244
Event Date: 23 Jul 2026 22:58 UTC
24 Jul 2026 07:58 Local
Exposed Population: 5 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 23 Jul 2026 23:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000t2w3 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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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),