M 4.9 in Indonesia on 13 May 2024 14:08 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 1428605
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 270.7 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.5989 , 123.609
Event Date: 13 May 2024 14:08 UTC
13 May 2024 22:08 Local
Exposed Population:
100 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 13 May 2024 14:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000my9k Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),