M 5.1 in Indonesia on 08 Dec 2021 19:00 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 1300597
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 252.42 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.77 , 123.3736
Event Date: 08 Dec 2021 19:00 UTC
09 Dec 2021 03:00 Local
Exposed Population:
350 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 08 Dec 2021 20:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gall Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),