M 5.6 in Banda Sea on 09 Aug 2022 12:59 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 1333289
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 160.417 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.7514 , 130.0087
Event Date: 09 Aug 2022 12:59 UTC
09 Aug 2022 21:59 Local
Exposed Population: 1 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 09 Aug 2022 13:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000i9cd Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),