M 5.3 in Indonesia on 08 Jan 2022 09:53 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 1305058
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 13.03 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.3904 , 127.9441
Event Date: 08 Jan 2022 09:53 UTC
08 Jan 2022 18:53 Local
Exposed Population:
870 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 09 Jan 2022 00:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ga5w Scaled population (vector) 6.2  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),