M 4.8 in Indonesia on 18 Dec 2021 02:10 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 1302247
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.2671 , 121.1866
Event Date: 18 Dec 2021 02:10 UTC
18 Dec 2021 10:10 Local
Exposed Population:
40 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2021 02:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gdb3 Scaled population (vector) 5.34  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),