M 5.5 in Indonesia on 23 Jul 2025 08:25 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 1491603
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 14.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.0352 , 130.2811
Event Date: 23 Jul 2025 08:25 UTC
23 Jul 2025 17:25 Local
Exposed Population: 4 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 23 Jul 2025 08:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000qubl 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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),