M 4.8 in Indonesia on 24 Jul 2020 11:54 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 1227438
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 2.138 , 126.7281
Event Date: 24 Jul 2020 11:54 UTC
24 Jul 2020 20:54 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jul 2020 15:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b3bx Scaled population (vector) 0.98  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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'Inchworm' pattern of Indonesian earthquake rupture powered seismic 'b ... Mon, 27 Jul 2020 22:44:00 +0200.

In a new study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters , researchers at the University of Tsukuba investigated a case of supershear rupture, the 2018 Palu earthquake (moment magnitude: 7.6) in Sulawesi, Indonesia, and its relations
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"Inchworm" pattern of Indonesian earthquake rupture powered seismic "b ... Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:51:00 +0200.

Credit: University of Tsukuba. Tsukuba, Japan - Earthquakes are often imagined as originating from a single point where the seismic waves are strongest, the hypocenter underground or the epicenter at the Earth's surface, with seismic energy
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MIL-OSI Asia-Pac: World News in Brief: July 27Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:58:00 +0200.

* Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday said his government’s intervention policy after the country’s first domestic transmissions of the coronavirus in March prevented as many as 1.3 million to 3.5 million infections. Speaking dur
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“Inchworm” pattern of Indonesian earthquake rupture powered seismic “b ... Mon, 27 Jul 2020 06:39:00 +0200.

University of Tsukuba researchers report “inchworm-like” slip evolution of supershear rupture along the Palu-Koro fault during the 2018 Palu earthquake in Indonesia, showing the effect of complex fault geometry on rupture propagation Tsukub
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),