M 4.9 in Indonesia on 15 Jan 2021 23:32 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 1251748
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.9349 , 118.9456
Event Date: 15 Jan 2021 23:32 UTC
16 Jan 2021 07:32 Local
Exposed Population:
1150000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jan 2021 00:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d0im Scaled population (vector) 6.07  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 360 | About casualties: 56 | Last hour: 0

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Emergency response ongoing as of Jan. 20 after magnitude-6.2 earthquake in West Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. Damage, casualties reported.
News in Pictures – 19 January 2021Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:44:00 +0100.

Residents build tents outside their house badly damaged by earthquake in Mamuju, West Sulawesi, Indonesia. Aid was reaching the thousands of people left homeless and struggling after an earthquake that killed a number of people struck early
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Jokowi pledges to rebuild quake-hit city as death toll reaches 90Tue, 19 Jan 2021 16:36:00 +0100.

Joko Widodo (centre) inspects an earthquake-damaged government building, in Mamuju, West Sulawesi today. (AP pic) JAKARTA: Indonesia will rebuild homes and buildings ravaged by a powerful earthquake that struck Sulawesi island last week, Pr
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At least one person died while 10 others sustained injuries as heavy snowfall blanketed wide areas of northeastern Japan, resulting in a multiple-vehicular accident on Tuesday, January 19, 2021. More than 130 vehicles and some 200 people we
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),