M 5.5 in Indonesia on 10 Apr 2025 07:53 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 1476594
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.9376 , 138.6674
Event Date: 10 Apr 2025 07:53 UTC
10 Apr 2025 16:53 Local
Exposed Population: 4 thousand in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 10 Apr 2025 08:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000q52k Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Indonesia - Earthquakes (ECHO 15 Apr 2025)Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:24

  • An earthquake of 5.5 magnitude at a depth of 35 km occurred on 10 April at 7:53 UTC (16:53 local time) in South Papua Province, eastern Indonesia. The epicentre was located about 73 km south-east of Agats town (South Papua Province).
  • USGS PAGER estimates that up to 1,000 people were exposed to strong shaking. There are no initial reports of casualties or damage due to this event.
  • Moreover, on 10 April at 15:16 UTC (22:16 local time), another seismic event of 4.1 magnitude occurred in Bogor City and caused minor damage to 14 houses, as registered by the National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure (BNPB). Also in this case no casualties have been recorded.
Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. 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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),