M 5.3 in Indonesia on 22 Nov 2020 11:27 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 1244690
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10.81 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.5928 , 127.4718
Event Date: 22 Nov 2020 11:27 UTC
22 Nov 2020 20:27 Local
Exposed Population:
130000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Nov 2020 11:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000crg7 Scaled population (vector) 4.31  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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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),