M 5.7 in Indonesia on 29 Jan 2020 23:46 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 1204183
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 15.28 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.7483 , 126.3232
Event Date: 29 Jan 2020 23:46 UTC
30 Jan 2020 08:46 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Jan 2020 01:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60007jmj 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: 142 | About casualties: 16 | Last hour: 0

Indonesia Offers Reward for Removal of Tire from Crocodile’s NeckSat, 01 Feb 2020 12:16:00 +0100.

JAKARTA – Indonesia on Friday launched a bold initiative to reward anyone who succeeds in removing a tire that has been stuck around a crocodile’s neck since 2016. “There is a lot of pressure from citizens to help the crocodile that has bee
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Indonesian and German collaboration completes tsunami early warning sy ... Sat, 01 Feb 2020 05:28:00 +0100.

The tsunami in October, this year, in Indonesia, triggered off by an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, claimed more than a 100 lives. People affected had to live in makeshift tents, rescued after missions fought their way to reach the re
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Ants can save millions from earthquakesFri, 31 Jan 2020 19:28:00 +0100.

; Credit: © Shutterstock. When California and Japan, Indonesia, Italy and Greece next suffer the worst of earthquakes, there is help already available, apart from the early warning seismology that tsunami warning centres (TWCs) provide. Ger
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Reward for anyone brave enough to remove tyre from 13ft croc's neck Bu ... Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:28:00 +0100.

There's a reward if you can get the tire off this crocodile's neck. A reward is being offered for anyone who can get a tire off of a 13-foot crocodile in Indonesia, according to Indonesia's state-run Antara news agency. The crocodile may be
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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),