M 5.2 in Indonesia on 13 May 2024 00:28 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 1428517
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 272 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.9265 , 123.852
Event Date: 13 May 2024 00:28 UTC
13 May 2024 08:28 Local
Exposed Population:
1.4 million in MMI III
Inserted at: 13 May 2024 07:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000my6q 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),