M 4.5 in Indonesia on 01 Jan 2022 21:43 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 1304248
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 50.35 Km
Lat/Lon: 3.6668 , 126.946
Event Date: 01 Jan 2022 21:43 UTC
02 Jan 2022 05:43 Local
Exposed Population:
210 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 01 Jan 2022 23:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000g8de Scaled population (vector) 5.49  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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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),