M 4.5 in Indonesia on 18 Nov 2021 18:27 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 1297498
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 414.89 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.5657 , 124.4049
Event Date: 18 Nov 2021 18:27 UTC
19 Nov 2021 02:27 Local
Exposed Population:
180 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Nov 2021 21:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000fv8i Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),