M 4.8 in Indonesia on 19 Apr 2021 07:35 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 1265391
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 40.48 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.7334 , 126.3061
Event Date: 19 Apr 2021 07:35 UTC
19 Apr 2021 16:35 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Apr 2021 08:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000e2tr Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 266 | About casualties: 76 | Last hour: 0

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A shallow magnitude 4.8 earthquake was reported in the morning near Vanimo, Vanimo-Green River District, West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. According to Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency, the quake hit on Frid
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Moderate magnitude 4.8 earthquake 44 km south of Vanimo, Papua New Gui ... Fri, 23 Apr 2021 00:22:00 +0200.

A shallow magnitude 4.8 earthquake was reported in the morning near Vanimo, Vanimo-Green River District, West Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. According to Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency, the quake hit on Frid
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Light mag. 4.3 earthquake - Banda Sea, 21 km north of Lospalos, Lautém ... Thu, 22 Apr 2021 13:26:00 +0200.

Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency reported a magnitude 4.3 quake in Timor-Leste near Lospalos, Lautém, only 18 minutes ago. The earthquake hit early evening on Thursday 22 April 2021 at 6:02 pm local time at a gre
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Indonésie: un séisme de 6,1 sur l’échelle de Richter secoue le sud-oue ... Thu, 22 Apr 2021 12:37:00 +0200.

Jakarta – Un tremblement de terre de 6,1 sur l’échelle de Richter a secoué le sud-ouest de Nias, au nord de Sumatra, déclenchant une panique parmi les habitants de la ville de Gunungsitoli. L’Agence de météorologie, de climatologie et de gé
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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),