M 4.6 in Indonesia on 21 Sep 2021 10:33 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 1286551
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.4317 , 140.2119
Event Date: 21 Sep 2021 10:33 UTC
21 Sep 2021 19:33 Local
Exposed Population:
480 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 21 Sep 2021 11:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Indonesia= 4.8

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000fd3k Scaled population (vector) 5.6  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.3  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),