M 5.9 in Indonesia on 02 Aug 2021 05:01 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 1279778
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.4771 , 133.9798
Event Date: 02 Aug 2021 05:01 UTC
02 Aug 2021 14:01 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI V
About 29000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Aug 2021 22:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000f1ea Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -1.73  
  C2 shakemap 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),