M 4.6 in Indonesia on 29 Apr 2024 13:29 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 1426519
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 31.3 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.6805 , 97.036
Event Date: 29 Apr 2024 13:29 UTC
29 Apr 2024 20:29 Local
Exposed Population:
200 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 29 Apr 2024 14:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000muvz Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 47 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 3

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Light mag. 4.2 earthquake - 46 km northwest of Kotabumi, Lampung, Indo ... 2024-05-03T11:58+0200.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Kotabumi , a town with 42,000 inhabitants in Indonesia , in 46 km (29 mi) distance southeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there.
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BMKG stresses Great Sumatran Fault to not trigger tsunami2024-05-03T11:49+0200.

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia's Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) emphasized that the Great Sumatran fault stretching across the island's mainland does not trigger a tsunami. Head of the BMKG Earthquake and Tsunami Cente
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Weak mag. 3.9 earthquake - Maluku Sea, 95 km northeast of Pulau Mayu I ... 2024-05-03T09:27+0200.

Based on data from the past 14 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 350 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 7 or higher: 0.06 quakes per year (or 1 q
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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),