M 5 in Indonesia on 17 Apr 2021 01:04 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 1265049
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 100.74 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.1158 , 95.4508
Event Date: 17 Apr 2021 01:04 UTC
17 Apr 2021 08:04 Local
Exposed Population:
1580000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Apr 2021 01:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000e29d Scaled population (vector) 6.25  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

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

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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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6.4-magnitude quake hits western Indonesia, no casualty reportedTue, 20 Apr 2021 23:50:00 +0200.

JAKARTA, April 20 (Xinhua) -- A 6.4-magnitude earthquake jolted North Sumatra province in western Indonesia early Tuesday with no preliminary reports of damages or casualties, officials said here. The earthquake did not potentially trigger
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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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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),