M 5.9 in Indonesia on 02 Feb 2019 11:01 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 1169539
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.714 , 100.3367
Event Date: 02 Feb 2019 11:01 UTC
02 Feb 2019 18:01 Local
Exposed Population: About 5000 people in MMI
140000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Feb 2019 12:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jcdi Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -1.73  
  C2 shakemap 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 231 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Press releasesWed, 06 Feb 2019 04:39:00 +0100.

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Warnings of doom?Mon, 04 Feb 2019 17:49:00 +0100.

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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),