M 5.9 in Indonesia on 28 Mar 2026 18:38 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 1531557
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 159 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.4878 , 127.7555
Event Date: 28 Mar 2026 18:38 UTC
29 Mar 2026 03:38 Local
Exposed Population: 10 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 28 Mar 2026 19:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000s8ec Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Two earthquakes hit eastern Indonesia, no damage reported 3/29/2026 8:17:00 AM.

Two earthquakes struck eastern Indonesia early Sunday, with a magnitude 6.5 quake in Maluku and a smaller tremor in Sulawesi, causing no damage or tsunami risk. JAKARTA : TWO earthquakes struck the Maluku and Southeast Sulawesi regions in e
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Two earthquakes strike eastern Indonesia on Sunday (March 29), says BK.. 3/29/2026 8:03:00 AM.

JAKARTA (Bernama): Two earthquakes struck Maluku and Southeast Sulawesi in eastern Indonesia early Sunday, authorities said. According to the data from Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), no damage or casualti
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No tsunami threat to Malaysia after Indonesia quake 3/29/2026 5:40:00 AM.

Malaysia’s MetMalaysia confirms no tsunami risk following a strong 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia’s Banda Sea early this morning. KUALA LUMPUR : Malaysian authorities have confirmed there is no tsunami threat to the country following
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World Earthquake Report for Sunday, 29 March 2026 3/29/2026 5:22:00 AM.

The National Defence and Security Council held an alms-offering ceremony to mark the first anniversary of monks, nuns, and those who died in the Mandalay earthquake at 9:30 am yesterday at Uppatasanti Pagoda in Nay Pyi Taw Union Territory.
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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),