M 5.5 in Indonesia on 30 May 2020 13:06 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 1220330
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 31.09 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.0182 , 126.6166
Event Date: 30 May 2020 13:06 UTC
30 May 2020 21:06 Local
Exposed Population: 210000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 May 2020 13:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000a2n5 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: 107 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Moderate quake strikes Talaud Islands, IndonesiaSat, 30 May 2020 16:53:00 +0200.

KUALA LUMPUR, May 30 -- A moderate earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale struck the Talaud Islands in Indonesia at 9.06 pm (Malaysian time) today. The Malaysian Meteorological Department (MetMalaysia) in a statement said the earthqu
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A 60 años del terremoto y maremoto que azotó Valdivia y gran parte de ... Fri, 29 May 2020 19:49:00 +0200.

El 22 de mayo la magnitud fue de 9,5 grados. Magallanes se conmovió con la desgracia de miles de compatriotas, y en los días siguientes a la gran tragedia, enviaron 10 toneladas de ayuda, entre alimentos y ropa para los damnificados. El vie
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Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 recorded in Maluku watersThu, 28 May 2020 07:15:00 +0200.

. 5 minutes ago Jakarta (ANTARA) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.0 on the Richter scale rattled Maluku Province early on Thursday, the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) stated. The quake, which struck at 2:35 West Indon
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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),