M 5.1 in Indonesia on 14 Jan 2022 16:43 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 1305943
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.8729 , 118.609
Event Date: 14 Jan 2022 16:43 UTC
15 Jan 2022 00:43 Local
Exposed Population:
840 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jan 2022 17:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gc0w Scaled population (vector) 5.4  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 199 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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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),