M 5.9 in Indonesia on 21 Sep 2019 19:53 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 1188266
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 48.47 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.5102 , 130.446
Event Date: 21 Sep 2019 19:53 UTC
22 Sep 2019 04:53 Local
Exposed Population: Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Sep 2019 19:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60005lts Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 113 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

Indonesia tsunami rebuild edges forward, but not for everyoneWed, 25 Sep 2019 14:10:00 +0200.

Fewer than half of the survivors have received promised compensation for dead relatives, or two months of cash allowances totalling about $42, according to government statistics. Indonesia’s government plans to distribute some $16 million t
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Indonesia: Long road to recovery for children who survived world’s dea ... Tue, 24 Sep 2019 13:16:00 +0200.

One year since a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, thousands of children have received life-saving training to prepare them for future disaster scenarios, including soil liquefaction. Children are
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Un séisme de magnitude 6,4 secoue l'Est de l'IndonésieTue, 24 Sep 2019 11:23:00 +0200.

Un séisme de magnitude 6,4 a secoué la province de Maluku, à l’Est de l’Indonésie, dans la matinée du 22 septembre, selon l’Agence indonésienne de météorologie, de climatologie et de géophysique. Aucune alerte au tsunami n'a été émise. Aupa
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Thousands homeless year after Indonesia quakeTue, 24 Sep 2019 05:04:00 +0200.

JAKARTA: Nearly 60,000 people are still living in makeshift accommodation nearly a year after a devastating earthquake and tsunami pounded the Indonesian city of Palu, the Red Cross said Monday. The magnitude 7.5 quake and subsequent delug
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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),