WFP ADAM: 2025 Indonesia Earthquake Impact Analysis

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake impacted an estimated 91,563 people near Nabire, Indonesia on September 18, 2025. The dataset, produced by the World Food Programme's Automated Disaster Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) system, provides geospatial and socio-economic information for this sudden-onset emergency. It was last updated in May 2026 and is available in GeoJSON and CSV formats.

Use Cases

• Map the earthquake's impact zone based on the provided epicenter coordinates and 50km radius.
• Estimate population exposure for relief planning based on the reported count of 91,563 impacted people.
• Analyze geospatial hazard data for risk modeling based on the event's magnitude and depth.

Strengths

• Includes precise event parameters: magnitude 6.1, depth of 10.0 km, and exact epicenter coordinates.
• Provides a concrete impact metric, stating 91,563 people were within 50km of the epicenter.
• Data is from an operational UN system (WFP ADAM) designed for humanitarian emergency analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and variable definitions require manual inspection.

Provenance

Source

WFP Automated Disaster Analysis & Mapping (ADAM)

Collection Method

Collected, analyzed, and mapped by an automated system following a sudden-onset humanitarian emergency.

Time Range

Primary event date: September 18, 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 22:10:04.839940; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Epicenter 28km south of Nabire, Indonesia (latitude -3.6145, longitude 135.5258).