M 5.5 in Northern Molucca Sea on 18 Jan 2023 08:01 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 1354775
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 50.817 Km
Lat/Lon: 2.6819 , 127.135
Event Date: 18 Jan 2023 08:01 UTC
18 Jan 2023 17:01 Local
Exposed Population: 10 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 18 Jan 2023 08:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000j56g Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),