M 5.1 in Indonesia on 12 Aug 2023 13:20 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 1386692
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 49.223 Km
Lat/Lon: -0.7392 , 121.2196
Event Date: 12 Aug 2023 13:20 UTC
12 Aug 2023 21:20 Local
Exposed Population:
110 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 12 Aug 2023 13:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000kzjx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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),