M 5.6 in Indonesia on 24 Oct 2019 13:38 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 1191473
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 250.04 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.1446 , 124.191
Event Date: 24 Oct 2019 13:38 UTC
24 Oct 2019 21:38 Local
Exposed Population:
1990000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Oct 2019 13:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000624h Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 279 | About casualties: 55 | Last hour: 0

Hunnarshala: Going back to earthSat, 26 Oct 2019 14:28:00 +0200.

Its birth was the result of a disaster. Six months after a devastating earthquake shook Gujarat in January 2001— the brunt of which was borne by Bhuj and its surrounding areas — a group of engineers, architects, and master artisans from the
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Philippines: ASEAN Weekly Disaster Update, 14 – 20 Oct 2019Tue, 22 Oct 2019 07:00:00 +0200.

REGIONAL SUMMARY: During the week, the disaster situation in ASEAN was dominated by several geophysical events, ranging from light volcanic activities to higher frequencies of earthquakes, in which one of them (in the Philippines) had cause
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Moderate quake strikes off western IndonesiaTue, 22 Oct 2019 04:34:00 +0200.

An earthquake of 5.5 magnitue jolted off West Sumatra province in western Indonesia earlier on Tuesday, the meteorology and geophysics agency said, reports citing Xinhua. The quake struck at 06:49 a.m. Jakarta time on Tuesday, Gian Giananj
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Moderate quake strikes off western IndonesiaTue, 22 Oct 2019 03:38:00 +0200.

JAKARTA, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake of 5.5 magnitue jolted off West Sumatra province in western Indonesia earlier on Tuesday, the meteorology and geophysics agency said. The quake struck at 06:49 a.m. Jakarta time on Tuesday, Gian Gi
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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),