M 5.6 in Indonesia on 27 Feb 2020 19:13 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 1208198
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 116.67 Km
Lat/Lon: 3.8539 , 125.7757
Event Date: 27 Feb 2020 19:13 UTC
28 Feb 2020 03:13 Local
Exposed Population: About 93000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Feb 2020 19:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us600085g3 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -1.73  
  C2 shakemap 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 82 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Geoscience: Origin of destructive earthquakes and tsunamis in the Band ... Mon, 02 Mar 2020 16:17:00 +0100.

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BNPB records 652 natural disasters in February 2020Sun, 01 Mar 2020 10:20:00 +0100.

Chief of the BNPB Disaster Data, Information and Communication Center Agus Wibowo during a press conference at the BNPB office in Jakarta in October J2019. (FOTO ANTARA/Katriana) The disasters still dominate this month. The death toll from
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Moderate quake jolts eastern IndonesiaSat, 29 Feb 2020 11:48:00 +0100.

JAKARTA, Feb. 29 (Xinhua) -- A 5.5-magnitude quake struck off North Maluku province in the eastern part of Indonesia on Saturday, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said. The quake jolted at 4:28 p.m. Jakarta time (0928 GMT)
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Moderate quake jolts eastern IndonesiaSat, 29 Feb 2020 11:45:00 +0100.

JAKARTA, Feb. 29 (Xinhua) -- A 5.5-magnitude quake struck off North Maluku province in the eastern part of Indonesia on Saturday, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency said. The quake jolted at 4:28 p.m. Jakarta time (0928 GMT)
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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),