M 5.5 in Banda Sea on 02 Jan 2020 11:25 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 1200466
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.7297 , 124.9909
Event Date: 02 Jan 2020 11:25 UTC
02 Jan 2020 19:25 Local
Exposed Population: Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Jan 2020 11:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70006thw Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 119 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Charity goes far: Runners cover 250 km for children in AcehSun, 29 Dec 2019 09:12:00 +0100.

It was a Sunday morning on Dec. 26, 2004 when a deadly tsunami hit Aceh following a massive earthquake measuring 9.3 on the Richter scale. The disaster killed more than 170,000 people in the province, according to SOS Children’s Villages In
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Asia conmemora los 15 años del tsunami que causó 230.000 muertosSun, 29 Dec 2019 05:48:00 +0100.

Varios países de todo el mundo, sobretodo del continente asiático, conmemoran hoy a las 230.000 víctimas mortales que provocó el tsunami de Indonesia de 2004 , una de las catástrofes naturales más mortíferas de la historia reciente, en su 1
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Indonesia Mourns 15 Years After Boxing Day TsunamiFri, 27 Dec 2019 15:16:00 +0100.

Thousands of mourners flocked to mass graves Thursday in Indonesia's Aceh province to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, one of the worst natural disasters in history. The 2004 tsunami killed 220,000 people in
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Recuerdan en Indonesia el tsunami de 2004 que dejó más de 200 mil muer ... Fri, 27 Dec 2019 13:09:00 +0100.

Sumatra. Miles de personas acudieron ayer a los cementerios de la provincia de Aceh, en Indonesia, donde yacen los restos de las víctimas del devastador tsunami que justo hace 15 años dejó más de 220 mil muertos en este y otros países del P
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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),