M 7 in Indonesia on 21 Jan 2021 12:23 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 1252536
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.0M
Depth: 95.81 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.0074 , 127.5174
Event Date: 21 Jan 2021 12:23 UTC
21 Jan 2021 21:23 Local
Exposed Population: About 6000 people in MMI
About 19000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Jan 2021 12:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000d20e Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -1.73 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.79      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.96      
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Indonesia, Philippines - Earthquake (ECHO 22 Jan 2021)Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:11

  • An earthquake of 7.0 M at a depth of 96 km occurred offshore between southern Philippines and northern-eastern Indonesia on 21 January at 12.23 UTC (21.23 local time). The epicentre was located in the southern Philippine Sea approximately 93 km northeast of Karakelong Island (Talaud Islands, north-eastern Indonesia) and 200 km south-east of the southeastern coast of Mindanao Island (southern Philippines).
  • USGS PAGER estimates that up to 6, 000 people were exposed to strong shaking and up to 173,000 people to moderate shaking. No tsunami warning has been issued.
  • Two aftershocks of magnitude 4.5 M and 4.6 M have been recorded in the area.
  • According to the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management, five houses and one building have been damaged in Talaud Islands.
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),