M 5.2 in Indonesia on 16 Feb 2019 06:39 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 1170957
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 26.69 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.4375 , 140.123
Event Date: 16 Feb 2019 06:39 UTC
16 Feb 2019 15:39 Local
Exposed Population:
460000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2019 06:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Indonesia= 4.8

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jis0 Scaled population (vector) 5.56  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 221 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

Despierta región oriental de Indonesia con terremotoWed, 20 Feb 2019 05:40:00 +0100.

Yakarta (VNA) - Un terremoto de 5,9 grados en la escala Richter ocurrió esta mañana en la provincia Maluku del Norte, en el este de Indonesia, informó la Agencia de Meteorología, Climatología y Geofísica de este país. La fuente precisó que
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11:22 Fuerte sismo en Indonesia, sin víctimas mortalesWed, 20 Feb 2019 05:28:00 +0100.

19 de febrero de 2019, 23:22 Yakarta, 20 feb (PL) Un sismo de magnitud 5,9 estremeció en la mañana de hoy a la provincia Maluku Norte, en la región oriental de Indonesia, sin reportarse hasta el momento víctimas fatales ni daños materiales
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Strong quake shakes eastern IndonesiaWed, 20 Feb 2019 04:58:00 +0100.

Hanoi (VNA) – A 5.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded at North Maluku province in the eastern region of Indonesia in the morning of February 20. According to Indonesia’s Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics, the quake’s epicen
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Indonesia earthquake: STRONG 5.6 quake STRIKES near North Sulawesi on ... Wed, 20 Feb 2019 04:36:00 +0100.

The epicenter of the earthquake is 141km from Bitung city and 131km west of Kota Ternate. The shakes, which came at 12:10am GMT (8:10am local time) hit at a depth of 36.4km. Indonesia is situated on the ring of fire, where tectonic plates m
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),