M 5.6 in Indonesia on 20 Feb 2019 00:10 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 1171333
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 36.43 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.749 , 126.1874
Event Date: 20 Feb 2019 00:10 UTC
20 Feb 2019 09:10 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Feb 2019 00:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jkcy Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 202 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

USGS: Earthquake with magnitude 5.0 strikes Moluccas, Indonesia Malays ... Sat, 23 Feb 2019 19:21:00 +0100.

Picture representation of a seismologist pointing at a graphic showing an earthquake reading. (Reuters pic) MOLUCCAS: An earthquake with magnitude 5.0 struck 98 km east-northeast of Ternate, in the Moluccas islands of Indonesia, according t
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Earthquake with magnitude 5.0 strikes Moluccas, IndonesiaSat, 23 Feb 2019 14:20:00 +0100.

. JAKARTA, Feb 23 — An earthquake with magnitude 5.0 struck 98km east-northeast of Ternate, in the Moluccas islands of Indonesia, according to the United States Geological Survey. — Reuters.
Earthquake with magnitude 5.0 strikes Moluccas, IndonesiaSat, 23 Feb 2019 13:37:00 +0100.

An earthquake with magnitude 5.0 struck 98 km (61 miles) east-northeast of Ternate, in the Moluccas islands of Indonesia, according to the United States Geological Survey. We use cookies limited for the aims specified in the data policy an
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Earthquake with magnitude 5.0 strikes Moluccas, Indonesia - USGSSat, 23 Feb 2019 13:28:00 +0100.

Feb 23 (Reuters) - An earthquake with magnitude 5.0 struck 98 km (61 miles) east-northeast of Ternate, in the Moluccas islands of Indonesia, according to the United States Geological Survey. (Writing by Edmund Blair; Editing by Toby Chopra)
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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),