M 5.6 in Indonesia on 14 Nov 2018 23:01 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 1162279
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 8.66 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.9155 , 119.4345
Event Date: 14 Nov 2018 23:01 UTC
15 Nov 2018 07:01 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VII
2010000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Nov 2018 23:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000hrxp Scaled population (vector) 1.54  
  C1 shakemap -1.73  
  C2 shakemap 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Indonesia - 5.6 M Earthquake (ECHO 15 Nov 2018)Thu, 15 Nov 2018 11:01

  • An earthquake of 5.6 M at the depth of 8.7 km occurred in Sulawesi Island (Indonesia) on 14 November at 23:01 UTC (15 November at 6.01 local time). The epicentre was located 9 km north-east of Mamasa town (Mamasa Regency, West Sulawesi Province). USGS PAGER estimated a shaking up to strong for 21 000 people and up to moderate for 36 000 people.
  • As of 15 November at 8.00 UTC, there are no reports of casualties or damage.
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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),