M 5.7 in Indonesia on 04 Aug 2026 20:16 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 1556149
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.5066 , 126.4856
Event Date: 04 Aug 2026 20:16 UTC
05 Aug 2026 05:16 Local
Exposed Population: 10 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 04 Aug 2026 20:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ti49 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),