M 4.8 in Indonesia on 20 Jan 2021 04:28 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 1252326
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.9564 , 131.8399
Event Date: 20 Jan 2021 04:28 UTC
20 Jan 2021 13:28 Local
Exposed Population:
About 23000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jan 2021 04:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d1ji Scaled population (vector) 3.68  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 354 | About casualties: 52 | Last hour: 0

Christians spread love and help in disasters after the Indonesian eart ... Sat, 23 Jan 2021 21:31:00 +0100.

Christians are responding to take care of those affected by the 6.2-magnitude earthquake that killed more than 81 people in Indonesia earlier this month. As of Tuesday, the search for survivors of the January 15 disaster continued, says Mis
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Indonesia, Philippines - Earthquake (BNPB, GDACS, USGS) (ECHO Daily Fl ... Fri, 22 Jan 2021 15:14:00 +0100.

Countries: Indonesia, Philippines Source: European Commission's Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations An earthquake of 7.0 M at a depth of 96 km occurred offshore between southern Philippines and
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Strong earthquake, but without victims, in North SulawesiFri, 22 Jan 2021 14:07:00 +0100.

Jakarta (AsiaNews) - According to preliminary information, no casualties or even serious damage was caused by the earthquake that struck last night around 19.23 Western Indonesian Time (WIB) on the island of Talaud, in the North Sulawesi ar
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Helping communities in Indonesia rebuild their lives and prepare for f ... Fri, 22 Jan 2021 13:13:00 +0100.

Country: Indonesia Source: Islamic Relief n Islamic Relief project due to complete next month is helping communities in Sulawesi, Indonesia, to better protect themselves when disasters strike. On 28 September 2018, three earthquakes struck
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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),