M 5.5 in Indonesia on 15 Jan 2020 07:55 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 1201895
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.383 , 124.0956
Event Date: 15 Jan 2020 07:55 UTC
15 Jan 2020 15:55 Local
Exposed Population: About 5000 people in MMI
1180000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Jan 2020 09:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000702n Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -1.73  
  C2 shakemap 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 196 | About casualties: 24 | Last hour: 0

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JAKARTA (AFP) - A strong 6.0 magnitude earthquake shook Indonesia's easternmost region of Papua on Sunday (Jan 19), the United States Geological Survey said. There was no tsunami warning accompanying the quake which struck inland 158km from
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6.0 quake hits Indonesia's PapuaSun, 19 Jan 2020 03:21:00 +0100.

JAKARTA: A strong 6.0 magnitude earthquake shook Indonesia´s easternmost region of Papua on Sunday, the United States Geological Survey said. There was no tsunami warning accompanying the quake which struck inland 158 kilometres (98 miles)
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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),