M 4.9 in Indonesia on 27 Dec 2021 08:32 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 1303618
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 36.25 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.6646 , 104.3204
Event Date: 27 Dec 2021 08:32 UTC
27 Dec 2021 15:32 Local
Exposed Population:
9 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 27 Dec 2021 08:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gfkq Scaled population (vector) 2.96  
  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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),