M 4.5 in Indonesia on 22 Apr 2024 00:48 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 1425231
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 97.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.1427 , 109.1455
Event Date: 22 Apr 2024 00:48 UTC
22 Apr 2024 07:48 Local
Exposed Population:
11 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 22 Apr 2024 01:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mdr4 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),