M 5.6 in Indonesia on 15 Feb 2020 23:00 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 1206701
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 18.8 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.3946 , 131.4798
Event Date: 15 Feb 2020 23:00 UTC
16 Feb 2020 08:00 Local
Exposed Population: About 42000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Feb 2020 23:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70007r1x Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -1.73  
  C2 shakemap 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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),