M 5.5 in Indonesia on 10 Mar 2020 14:06 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 1209631
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 24.25 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.8519 , 102.9649
Event Date: 10 Mar 2020 14:06 UTC
10 Mar 2020 21:06 Local
Exposed Population: About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Mar 2020 16:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60008d51 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: 69 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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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),