M 5.5 in Indonesia on 15 Aug 2023 03:54 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 1387095
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 171.6 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.4214 , 121.4291
Event Date: 15 Aug 2023 03:54 UTC
15 Aug 2023 11:54 Local
Exposed Population: 600 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 15 Aug 2023 04:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000l005 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Residents who fled deadly Maui fire ask for time to grieve and slower .. 8/19/2023 2:52:00 AM.

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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),