M 4.5 in Indonesia on 27 May 2022 01:16 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 1324171
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.4657 , 127.6821
Event Date: 27 May 2022 01:16 UTC
27 May 2022 10:16 Local
Exposed Population:
30 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 27 May 2022 01:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000hcwa Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),