M 4.5 in Indonesia on 23 Feb 2021 16:19 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 1257172
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 183.99 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.5559 , 125.7489
Event Date: 23 Feb 2021 16:19 UTC
24 Feb 2021 00:19 Local
Exposed Population:
About 13000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Feb 2021 16:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000dkfu Scaled population (vector) 3.14  
  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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Jakarta (ANTARA) - A 5.2-magnitude earthquake that hit South Halmahera District in North Maluku on Friday caused no fatalities, albeit damaged 60 houses, a public hospital, and several government buildings. The South Halmahera Disaster Miti
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Moderate mag. 4.8 earthquake - Maluku Sea, 144 km southeast of Goronta ... Sat, 27 Feb 2021 08:24:00 +0100.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 occurred only 13 minutes ago 117 km northeast of Luwuk, Indonesia, Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency reported. The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 km beneath the epicenter near Lu
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A moderate-magnitude 4.8 earthquake has been reported 100 km northwest ... Sat, 27 Feb 2021 07:54:00 +0100.

5:09 AM | By: EARTHQUAKEMONITOR. 4.8 Earthquake Feb 27 12:49 pm (GMT +8) Indonesia’s Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency reported a magnitude 4.8 earthquake in Indonesia near Luok, Kapopaten Bangai, Central Sulawesi, just 11 minu
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World Earthquake Report for Saturday, 27 February 2021Sat, 27 Feb 2021 06:50:00 +0100.

Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency reported a magnitude 4.8 quake in Indonesia near Luwuk, Kabupaten Banggai, Sulawesi Centrale, only 11 minutes ago. The earthquake hit around noon on Saturday 27 February 2021 at 1
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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),