M 4.5 in Indonesia on 25 Dec 2021 21:48 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 1303413
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.7871 , 129.4451
Event Date: 25 Dec 2021 21:48 UTC
26 Dec 2021 06:48 Local
Exposed Population:
300 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 25 Dec 2021 22:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gfaq Scaled population (vector) 5.6  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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),