M 5.1 in Indonesia on 12 Apr 2019 12:12 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 1176277
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.828 , 122.5845
Event Date: 12 Apr 2019 12:12 UTC
12 Apr 2019 20:12 Local
Exposed Population:
340000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Apr 2019 12:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us700034y7 Scaled population (vector) 5.3  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 389 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Indonesia: Indonesia: Earthquake Information bulletinMon, 15 Apr 2019 21:35:00 +0200.

This bulletin is being issued for information only and reflects the current situation and details available at this time. The Indonesian Red Cross (Palang Merah Indonesia; PMI), with the support of the International Federation of Red Cross
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Indonesia: People return home after 6.9-magnitude earthquake in Centra ... Mon, 15 Apr 2019 06:56:00 +0200.

Ruslan Sangadji. The situation in Banggai Raya in Central Sulawesi has returned to normal following a 6.9-magnitude earthquake that hit the province on Friday evening, as people have started to return to their homes after seeking higher gro
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Indonesia retira la alerta de posible tsunami en la isla de SulawesiMon, 15 Apr 2019 04:50:00 +0200.

Imagen de archivo de un devastador tsunami en Indonesia. / Afp Se ha registrado un seísmo de magnitud 7,0 en la zona, pero de momento no se tiene constancia de víctimas Las autoridades han retirado la alerta por tsunami emitida tras regist
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Indonesia retira la alerta de posible tsunami en la isla de SulawesiMon, 15 Apr 2019 04:33:00 +0200.

Las autoridades han retirado la alerta por tsunami emitida tras registrarse un seísmo de magnitud 6,9 -revisado desde una magnitud preliminar 7,0 - en la región indonesia de Sulawesi, en el centro del país, según ha informado la Agencia Nac
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),