M 4.8 in Indonesia on 08 Oct 2025 08:09 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 1504072
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 56.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.2534 , 102.2168
Event Date: 08 Oct 2025 08:09 UTC
08 Oct 2025 15:09 Local
Exposed Population:
1.4 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 08 Oct 2025 08:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000rfke Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),