M 5.4 in Indonesia on 21 May 2024 08:31 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 1429680
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 31.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.2173 , 138.1846
Event Date: 21 May 2024 08:31 UTC
21 May 2024 17:31 Local
Exposed Population: 8 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 21 May 2024 08:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000n004 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 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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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),