M 5.4 in Indonesia on 16 Apr 2021 03:42 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 1264939
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 22.7 Km
Lat/Lon: -10.3259 , 116.9514
Event Date: 16 Apr 2021 03:42 UTC
16 Apr 2021 11:42 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Apr 2021 04:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000e1zp Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 238 | About casualties: 85 | Last hour: 0

Un terremoto de 6 grados sacude el oeste de IndonesiaTue, 20 Apr 2021 03:34:00 +0200.

Indonesia se asienta sobre el llamado "Anillo de Fuego del Pacífico", una zona de gran actividad sísmica y volcánica. YAKARTA.- Un terremoto de 6 grados de magnitud en la escala abierta de Richter sacudió la isla indonesia de Nias , al oest
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Earthquake of magnitude 5.9 strikes Nias region, Indonesia - EMSC (Reu ... Tue, 20 Apr 2021 03:31:00 +0200.

(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck in the Nias region of Indonesia, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said late on... (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck in the Nias region of Indonesia, th
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Un terremoto de 6 grados sacude el oeste de IndonesiaTue, 20 Apr 2021 03:27:00 +0200.

Yakarta, 20 abr (EFE).- Un terremoto de 6 grados de magnitud en la escala abierta de Richter sacudió la isla indonesia de Nias, al oeste de la isla de Sumatra, sin que las autoridades informaran de momento de daños o emitiera alerta de tsun
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Un terremoto de 6 grados sacude el oeste de IndonesiaTue, 20 Apr 2021 03:26:00 +0200.

Yakarta, 20 abr (EFE).- Un terremoto de 6 grados de magnitud en la escala abierta de Richter sacudió la isla indonesia de Nias, al oeste de la isla de Sumatra, sin que las autoridades informaran de momento de daños o emitiera alerta de tsun
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),