M 5.5 in Indonesia on 28 Jan 2025 14:53 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 1464352
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 98.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.4432 , 121.2107
Event Date: 28 Jan 2025 14:53 UTC
28 Jan 2025 22:53 Local
Exposed Population: 630 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 28 Jan 2025 15:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000pmsr Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

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Strong earthquake strikes off Indonesia’s western province 2/1/2025 10:36:00 AM.

Jakarta (VNA) - A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s eastern province of Aceh on the evening of January 31, according to the country’s Agency for Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysics (BMKG), but no tsunami
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Based on data from the past 55 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 11.4 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 6 or higher: 0.02 quakes per year (or 1
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),