M 6 in Indonesia on 18 Jan 2020 16:38 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 1202319
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 33.56 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.8535 , 139.3343
Event Date: 18 Jan 2020 16:38 UTC
19 Jan 2020 01:38 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VI
150000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2020 16:41 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60007a3h Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -1.73  
  C2 shakemap 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 206 | About casualties: 25 | Last hour: 0

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Indonesia: RECOVERY MANAGERMon, 20 Jan 2020 15:04:00 +0100.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),