M 5 in Halmahera, Indonesia on 14 Jun 2020 13:25 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 1222215
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 120.39 Km
Lat/Lon: 2.7398 , 128.2927
Event Date: 14 Jun 2020 13:25 UTC
14 Jun 2020 22:25 Local
Exposed Population:
140000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jun 2020 13:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000abnj Scaled population (vector) 4.95  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 15 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Moderate earthquake shakes Halmahera, IndonesiaMon, 15 Jun 2020 08:52:00 +0200.

KUALA LUMPUR, June 15 -- A moderate earthquake measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale struck Halmahera, Indonesia, at 12.15 pm today. According to the Malaysian Meteorological Department’s statement, the quake occurred at a depth of 126 km abou
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Indonesia, Earthquake in North Maluku (17:45 Jun 5 2020)Mon, 08 Jun 2020 10:35:00 +0200.

Description. JAKARTA - Dozens of houses were damaged by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake that occurred yesterday afternoon (4/6). Damaged houses are spread in 6 subdistricts in the Morotai Islands Regency. BNPB Operational Control Center (Pusdalo
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Indonesia – Earthquake on Halmahera sea (DG ECHO, IFRC, government) (E ... Fri, 05 Jun 2020 14:43:00 +0200.

On 4 June, an earthquake of 6.8 M at a depth of 111 km hit Halmahera. The epicenter located on Halmahera sea, 99 km north of Daruba city, North Maluku. There is no tsunami alert has been released by Indonesian Met Service. The earthquake ca
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Magnitude 6.5 earthquake jolts IndonesiaThu, 04 Jun 2020 17:11:00 +0200.

An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 struck north of Halmahera near the province of North Sulawesi in Indonesia on Thursday. Indonesia’s national weather and climate agency (BMKG) gave a magnitude of 7.1 and depth of 111 km. The GFZ put the quake
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),