M 5.9 in Indonesia on 05 Apr 2020 18:37 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 1212950
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 53.62 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.4007 , 126.4427
Event Date: 05 Apr 2020 18:37 UTC
06 Apr 2020 03:37 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Apr 2020 18:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70008peg 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: 103 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Taiwan continues its commitment to the post-quake recovery and reconst ... Wed, 08 Apr 2020 07:11:00 +0200.

In March 2020, the International Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF) launched the “Central Sulawesi Earthquake WASH Recovery Program (Indonesia).” This project marks the continued support of Taiwan to the earthquake affected popul
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Moderate earthquake hits off Indian Ocean, no tsunami alertTue, 07 Apr 2020 12:02:00 +0200.

JAKARTA, April 7 (Xinhua) -- A 5.2-magnitude earthquake occurred in the Indian Ocean, 144 kilometers southeastern of Blitar regency in Indonesia's province of East Java, at a depth of 42 km on Tuesday at 3 p.m., the Indonesian Meteorology,
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Indonesia: ASEAN Weekly Disaster Update, 30 Mar – 05 Apr 2020Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:46:00 +0200.

REGIONAL SUMMARY. Scattered and isolated rain showers were reported in several parts of Indonesia, resulting to localised flooding events. Meanwhile, one earthquake of at least magnitude 5.0 were recorded in Indonesia. HIGHLIGHT. The Nation
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Magnitude 6.1 quake jolts eastern IndonesiaMon, 06 Apr 2020 08:26:00 +0200.

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake rattled Indonesia's Maluku province early Monday, according to the country’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysical Agency. The epicenter was located 122 kilometers (76 miles) northwest of Jailolo at a depth of
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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),