M 4.9 in Indonesia on 02 Aug 2020 04:35 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 1228541
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 57.12 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.5979 , 102.6872
Event Date: 02 Aug 2020 04:35 UTC
02 Aug 2020 11:35 Local
Exposed Population:
710000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Aug 2020 04:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b89d Scaled population (vector) 5.57  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

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'Inchworm' pattern of Indonesian earthquake rupture powered seismic 'b ... Mon, 27 Jul 2020 22:44:00 +0200.

In a new study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters , researchers at the University of Tsukuba investigated a case of supershear rupture, the 2018 Palu earthquake (moment magnitude: 7.6) in Sulawesi, Indonesia, and its relations
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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),