M 5.5 in Indonesia on 14 Apr 2021 10:55 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 1264730
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.2114 , 96.652
Event Date: 14 Apr 2021 10:55 UTC
14 Apr 2021 16:55 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Apr 2021 11:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000e1g3 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 233 | About casualties: 85 | Last hour: 0

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Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency reported a magnitude 5.2 quake in Papua New Guinea near Ambunti, Ambunti-Dreikikir, East Sepik Province, only 8 minutes ago. The earthquake hit early afternoon on Sunday 18 April
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Moderate mag. 5.2 earthquake - 99 km west of Ambunti, East Sepik Provi ... Sun, 18 Apr 2021 06:33:00 +0200.

Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency reported a magnitude 5.2 quake in Papua New Guinea near Ambunti, Ambunti-Dreikikir, East Sepik Province, only 8 minutes ago. The earthquake hit early afternoon on Sunday 18 April
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),