M 5.9 in Indonesia on 26 Sep 2023 01:39 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 1393182
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 90.3 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.7145 , 127.4999
Event Date: 26 Sep 2023 01:39 UTC
26 Sep 2023 09:39 Local
Exposed Population: 190 thousand in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 26 Sep 2023 03:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ky3a Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2023. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 192 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

Feature: Indonesia mourns 5 years after deadly earthquake and tsunami ... 2023-09-29T17:24+0200.

by Dames Alexander Sinaga PALU, Indonesia, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Under a blazing sun in the Indonesian town of Palu, Amir Irwan was shedding tears when he was staring at a land with cherry trees from a dead-end street where he was standing a
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Feature: Indonesia mourns 5 years after deadly earthquake and tsunami ... 2023-09-29T16:48+0200.

by Dames Alexander Sinaga PALU, Indonesia, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Under a blazing sun in the Indonesian town of Palu, Amir Irwan was shedding tears when he was staring at a land with cherry trees from a dead-end street where he was standing a
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Light mag. 4.3 earthquake - West Papua, Indonesia, on Friday, Septembe ... 2023-09-29T14:02+0200.

Seismic station: Jayapura, Indonesia (JAY/PS network) | Distance from quake: 305 km / 190 mi | Show on map Station Info Seismogram (vertical component) around time of quake. Thin dotted red line indicates time of quake. Seismic waves arrive
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Moderate mag. 3.9 earthquake - Near North Coast of Papua New Guinea on ... 2023-09-29T12:50+0200.

Seismic station: Jayapura, Indonesia (JAY/PS network) | Distance from quake: 133 km / 83 mi | Show on map Station Info Seismogram (vertical component) around time of quake. Thin dotted red line indicates time of quake. Seismic waves arrive
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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),