M 4.5 in Indonesia on 28 Mar 2024 21:23 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 1421576
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.9078 , 112.5114
Event Date: 28 Mar 2024 21:23 UTC
29 Mar 2024 04:23 Local
Exposed Population:
9 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 28 Mar 2024 22:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000m8nd Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),