M 4.5 in Indonesia on 21 May 2015 13:48 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 1055465
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 30.5 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.8715 , 96.9833
Event Date: 21 May 2015 13:48 UTC
21 May 2015 20:48 Local
Exposed Population:
258822 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 May 2015 15:19 UTC

GDACS Score

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Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Exposed population

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),