M 5 in Indonesia on 31 Dec 2021 05:53 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 1304105
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 106.45 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.0493 , 120.4294
Event Date: 31 Dec 2021 05:53 UTC
31 Dec 2021 13:53 Local
Exposed Population:
560 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 31 Dec 2021 06:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000g84h Scaled population (vector) 5.41  
  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),