M 5.6 in Ethiopia on 11 Oct 2025 16:18 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1504616
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Glide number: EQ-2025-000191-ETH
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.7902 , 39.8663
Event Date: 11 Oct 2025 16:18 UTC
11 Oct 2025 19:18 Local
Exposed Population: 10 thousand (in MMI>=VII)
Inserted at: 11 Oct 2025 18:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.8 (Ethiopia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 1 1
us6000rglb Scaled population (raster) 2.7  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.2  
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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), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),