M 4.6 in Indonesia on 22 Jan 2021 10:45 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 1252702
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 114.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.0118 , 127.5651
Event Date: 22 Jan 2021 10:45 UTC
22 Jan 2021 19:45 Local
Exposed Population:
About 13000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jan 2021 11:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d2cg Scaled population (vector) 3.58  
  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

Articles: 332 | About casualties: 41 | Last hour: 0

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Xinhua world news summary at 0700 GMT, Jan. 26Tue, 26 Jan 2021 08:15:00 +0100.

JAKARTA -- Ten miners have been trapped underground as landslides struck a coal mine in South Kalimantan province in central Indonesia, a senior disaster official said on Tuesday. The landslides occurring outside the underground area from S
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Significant magnitude 5.0 quake hits 78 km southwest of Lata, Solomon ... Tue, 26 Jan 2021 06:55:00 +0100.

5.0 quake 26 Jan 4:08 pm (GMT +11) The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported a magnitude 5.0 quake in the Solomon Islands near Lata, Santa Cruz Islands, Temotu Province, only 18 minutes ago. The earthquake hit in the afterno
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Moderate yet deep magnitude 5.3 earthquake 79 km southeast of Arawa, P ... Tue, 26 Jan 2021 05:54:00 +0100.

5.3 quake 26 Jan 3:17 pm (GMT +11) Just 12 minutes ago, a 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck near Arawa, North Solomons, Papua New Guinea. The tremor was recorded early afternoon on Tuesday 26 January 2021 at 3:17 pm local time, at an intermed
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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),