M 5.1 in Indonesia on 31 Jan 2021 09:44 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 1253891
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.4951 , 133.8417
Event Date: 31 Jan 2021 09:44 UTC
31 Jan 2021 18:44 Local
Exposed Population:
About 57000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2021 10:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000dddu Scaled population (vector) 4.13  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

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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),