M 4.9 in Indonesia on 20 Sep 2021 23:56 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 1286495
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 53.17 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.8225 , 125.8916
Event Date: 20 Sep 2021 23:56 UTC
21 Sep 2021 07:56 Local
Exposed Population:
70 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 21 Sep 2021 00:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000fd1i Scaled population (vector) 3.9  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 392 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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The claim: Experts predict La Palma eruption to create tsunami that would reach the U.S. A decades-old theory has resurfaced online after a volcanic eruption on a Spanish island that caught the world's attention. On the island of La Palma,
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Mindanao quake, tsunami monitoring center launched2021-09-24T18:50+0200.

MANILA, Philippines The Department of Science and Technology inaugurated yesterday its first cluster center for earthquake and tsunami monitoring in Mindanao. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) Mindanao Cluste
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Magnitude 6.1 earthquake registered near Adak, Alaska A magnitude 6.1 ... 2021-09-24T17:20+0200.

A magnitude 6.1 earthquake was reported Friday morning at 4:52 a.m. Pacific time 114 miles from Adak, Alaska, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Tsunami Warning System. According to the USGS, the epicenter wa
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M6.1 earthquake near the coast of Amatignak Island, Andreanof Islands, ... 2021-09-24T15:41+0200.

The epicenter was located 182 km (113 miles) WSW of Adak (population 332), Alaska, U.S., and 1 429 km (888 miles) ESE of Klyuchi, Russia. There are no people living within 100 km (62 miles). 1 000 people are estimated to have felt light sha
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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),