M 4.6 Off-shore on 14 Jan 2021 15:03 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 1251559
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 550.88 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.9681 , 179.2231
Event Date: 14 Jan 2021 15:03 UTC
15 Jan 2021 03:03 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jan 2021 15:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d024 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 325 | About casualties: 29 | Last hour: 0

NAMPA - Mines ministry confirms earthquake at Ai-AisMon, 18 Jan 2021 14:54:00 +0100.

Mines ministry confirms earthquake at Ai-Ais. Contributed by NAMPA. WINDHOEK, 18 JAN (NAMPA) – The Ministry of Mines and Energy has confirmed that an earthquake was recorded approximately 10 kilometres south-west of Ai-Ais on Thursday. The
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ACT Alliance Alert - Indonesia: West Sulawesi EarthquakeMon, 18 Jan 2021 14:53:00 +0100.

Country: Indonesia Source: ACT Alliance Please refer to the attached file. A 6.2 magnitude earthquake hit the districts of Majene, Mamuju and Polewali Mandarin in West Sulawesi, Indonesia on 15th January, 2021. This was preceded by a 5.9 ma
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Health Minister Visits Locations of Earthquakes in West SulawesiMon, 18 Jan 2021 14:33:00 +0100.

Indonesian Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin has visited the site of the earthquake in West Sulawesi, namely the West Sulawesi Regional Hospital in Mamuju.
Tanzania: Magufuli to Launch Massive Projects in KageraMon, 18 Jan 2021 14:04:00 +0100.

[Daily News] Bukoba -- Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Arts and Sports Dr Hassan Abbasi has said that President John Magufuli's two-day visit in Kagera Region clearly demonstrates that the major role of bringing
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),