M 5 in Indonesia on 04 May 2021 22:59 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 1267506
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 150.04 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.5198 , 127.2862
Event Date: 04 May 2021 22:59 UTC
05 May 2021 07:59 Local
Exposed Population:
780000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 May 2021 23:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000e06n 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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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),