M 4.5 in Indonesia on 30 Sep 2020 20:39 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 1237503
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 26.44 Km
Lat/Lon: -0.6495 , 128.2144
Event Date: 30 Sep 2020 20:39 UTC
01 Oct 2020 05:39 Local
Exposed Population:
About 73000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Oct 2020 13:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000c3ct Scaled population (vector) 4.82  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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BANGKOK.- Un terremoto de magnitud 6,0 sacudió este jueves la región oriental de Papúa Nueva Guinea, sin que se informara de daños materiales o víctimas ni se emitiera una alerta de tsunami. El seísmo se produjo a 20.34 hora local (10.34 am
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Un terremoto de magnitud 6.0 sacude la región oriental de Papúa Nueva ... Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:02:00 +0200.

Bangkok.- Un terremoto de magnitud 6.0 sacudió este jueves la región oriental de Papúa Nueva Guinea , sin que se informara de daños materiales o víctimas ni se emitiera una alerta de tsunami. El seísmo se produjo a 20.34 hora local (10.34 a
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Study on potential tsunami aims to inform, not to incite panic: BMKGWed, 30 Sep 2020 22:03:00 +0200.

The Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) has clarified that the purpose of a recent study conducted by the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), which found that Indonesia is vulnerable to a potential 20-meter-tall tsunami
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),