M 4.5 in Indonesia on 31 Mar 2024 03:53 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 1421918
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 110.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.9211 , 129.8287
Event Date: 31 Mar 2024 03:53 UTC
31 Mar 2024 12:53 Local
Exposed Population:
3 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 31 Mar 2024 04:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000m90x 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),