M 5.4 in Indonesia on 27 Oct 2020 19:43 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 1241115
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 22 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.2432 , 119.093
Event Date: 27 Oct 2020 19:43 UTC
28 Oct 2020 03:43 Local
Exposed Population: About 19000 people in MMI
550000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Oct 2020 18:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000c6e1 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -1.73  
  C2 shakemap 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 81 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

UN chief ‘saddened’ by loss of life, damage in quake-hit Turkey; Fai m ... Sat, 31 Oct 2020 07:45:00 +0100.

UNITED NATIONS, Oct 31 (APP): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Friday expressed his sorrow over the loss of life and the damage from the earthquake in western Turkey. “The Secretary-General is saddened by the loss of life and damage ca
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A propósito del sismo en Turquía, ¿cuáles son los 10 terremotos más fu ... Fri, 30 Oct 2020 20:50:00 +0100.

Un sismo de magnitud 7 azotó este viernes a Turquía y Grecia , provocando un pequeño tsunami y la muerte de al menos 14 personas y más de 400 heridos. Este tipo de eventos naturales son frecuentes en diversas zonas del mundo, ya que la Tier
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¡Perros cazafantasmas! Cinco perros que advirtieron la presencia paran ... Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:35:00 +0100.

E n una publicación de National Geographic, reseñan cómo antes del tsunami de 2004 y 2006 en Indonesia y de 2011 en Japón los perros habían tenido comportamientos extraños, mostrándose nerviosos, queriendo huir de sus lugares habituales o r
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Tragedias de la Humanidad que fueron vaticinadasFri, 30 Oct 2020 09:27:00 +0100.

A través de mi último libro, “El enigma de las catástrofes del fin del mundo” (Ed. Mihadas), reflejo una parte importante la Historia nuestra Humanidad, principalmente en los siglos XX y XXI en una simbiosis perfecta de los que es esa misma
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),