M 4.6 in Indonesia on 21 Jan 2021 16:37 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 1252589
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 101.02 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.9907 , 127.3993
Event Date: 21 Jan 2021 16:37 UTC
22 Jan 2021 00:37 Local
Exposed Population:
About 50000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jan 2021 22:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d240 Scaled population (vector) 4.22  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 332 | About casualties: 42 | Last hour: 0

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ASEAN Weekly Disaster Update Week 3, 18 – 24 Jan 2021Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:34:00 +0100.

English Infographic on Indonesia and 2 other countries about Shelter and Non-Food Items, Earthquake, Flash Flood and more; published on 24 Jan 2021 by AHA Centre
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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),