M 4.5 in Indonesia on 26 Mar 2024 13:31 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 1421252
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 130.7 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.1895 , 123.7608
Event Date: 26 Mar 2024 13:31 UTC
26 Mar 2024 21:31 Local
Exposed Population:
1.2 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 26 Mar 2024 17:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000m82y Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

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HONG KONG, March 30 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 hit Halmahera, Indonesia at 2356 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to b
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5.0-magnitude quake hits Halmahera, Indonesia: GFZ 3/30/2024 10:32:00 AM.

HONG KONG, March 30 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 hit Halmahera, Indonesia at 2356 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to b
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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),