M 5.5 in Indonesia on 14 Oct 2021 15:16 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 1290182
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 35.52 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.2096 , 126.1715
Event Date: 14 Oct 2021 15:16 UTC
15 Oct 2021 00:16 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Oct 2021 15:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000fuke 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: 344 | About casualties: 20 | Last hour: 0

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Event. A magnitude-6.1 offshore earthquake occurred near Vanuatu at 18:26 Oct. 18. The epicenter was about 67 km (42 miles) west-northwest of Sola, Vanuatu. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 97 km (60 miles), and light shaking was pro
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Séisme de magnitude 5,1 près du volcan Indonésien Agung : 3 morts2021-10-18T09:40+0200.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),