M 5.6 in Indonesia on 18 Feb 2019 19:30 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 1171213
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 21.6 Km
Lat/Lon: -9.5056 , 112.8624
Event Date: 18 Feb 2019 19:30 UTC
19 Feb 2019 03:30 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Feb 2019 20:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jjm5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 201 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Copernicus Sentinel-1 reveals shared plumbing led to Agung awakeningFri, 22 Feb 2019 14:46:00 +0100.

22 February 2019. When Mount Agung in Indonesia erupted in 2017, the search was on to find out why it had stirred. Thanks to information on ground deformation from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission, scientists now have more insight into the
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L'Equateur frappé par un séisme de magnitude 7,5Fri, 22 Feb 2019 13:27:00 +0100.

Un séisme de magnitude 7,5 a frappé aujourd'hui l'est de l'Equateur , près de la frontière avec le Pérou, ont annoncé les services géologiques américains. » LIRE AUSSI - Indonésie : pourquoi l'île de Lombok est frappée par autant de séismes
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Indonesia earthquake: Indonesia struck by THREE quakes in 24 hours IND ... Wed, 20 Feb 2019 19:43:00 +0100.

Indonesia has been rattled by a series of earthquakes in a matter of just 24 hours. An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 shook Ternate, North Maluka Province on Wednesday at 7.10am (12.10am GMT). The epicentre of the quake was located some 130km
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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),