M 5.4 in Indonesia on 16 Apr 2021 20:55 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 1265021
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 11.71 Km
Lat/Lon: 3.5728 , 126.8239
Event Date: 16 Apr 2021 20:55 UTC
17 Apr 2021 04:55 Local
Exposed Population: 180000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Apr 2021 15:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000e280 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -1.73  
  C2 shakemap 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 271 | About casualties: 85 | Last hour: 0

Magnitude 4.6 earthquake strikes near Tobelo, Kabupaten Halmahera Utar ... Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:48:00 +0200.

The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported a magnitude 3.8 quake in Austria near Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt Stadt, Lower Austria, only 8 minutes ago. The earthquake hit in the evening on Tuesday 20 April 2021 at 8:01 pm
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Light mag. 4.6 earthquake - Halmahera, Indonesia, on Tuesday, 20 April ... Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:48:00 +0200.

Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency reported a magnitude 4.6 quake in Indonesia near Tobelo, Kabupaten Halmahera Utara, North Maluku, only 13 minutes ago. The earthquake hit early morning on Wednesday 21 April 2021
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COVID-19 will cost more in 2020 than in any of the last 20 years combi ... Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:07:00 +0200.

What did we lose because of the pandemic? According to our calculations, many, and many of the most devastated countries and regions, are far from the attention of the global media. Disaster damage is usually measured in separate categories
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Earthquake of magnitude 6 strikes western IndonesiaTue, 20 Apr 2021 13:18:00 +0200.

JAKARTA, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News / WAM - 20th Apr, 2021) An earthquake of magnitude 6 struck in the Nias region in western Indonesia , the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said on Tuesday. EMSC said the quake was
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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),