M 5.5 in Indonesia on 02 Apr 2020 02:13 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 1212430
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.9492 , 125.6581
Event Date: 02 Apr 2020 02:13 UTC
02 Apr 2020 11:13 Local
Exposed Population: 620000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Apr 2020 02:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.6 (Timor-Leste)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Timor-Leste= 6.6; Indonesia= 4.8

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70008l5g Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.18  
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Latest media headlines

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JAKARTA, April 6 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 jolted North Maluku province in eastern Indonesia earlier Monday, according to the country's meteorology and geophysics agency. The quake struck at 1:37 a.m. Jakarta time Mo
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Aid workers face challenges due to lockdownsFri, 03 Apr 2020 19:58:00 +0200.

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Vunerable communities will suffer as humanitarian work slows down due to measures to combat the pandemic. Matt McGarry is CRS’ Sub-Re
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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),