M 4.7 in Indonesia on 11 Apr 2024 22:56 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 1423750
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 32.8 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.3935 , 140.3793
Event Date: 11 Apr 2024 22:56 UTC
12 Apr 2024 07:56 Local
Exposed Population:
10 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 11 Apr 2024 23:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)
GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mbji Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),