M 6.2 in Indonesia on 05 Feb 2020 18:12 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 1205374
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 592.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.0733 , 113.116
Event Date: 05 Feb 2020 18:12 UTC
06 Feb 2020 01:12 Local
Exposed Population:
310000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Feb 2020 18:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us70007j6z Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 earthquake 1 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 176 | About casualties: 21 | Last hour: 0

Contest to free crocodile from tyre stuck around its neck is scrappedFri, 07 Feb 2020 03:19:00 +0100.

has cancelled its death-defying contest to remove a motorbike tyre from a 13ft crocodile's neck after the competition was unable to attract any applicants. Authorities in Palu in Central Sulawesi, were unable to find a would-be crocodile wr
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Commentary: Never mind the scepticism - Indonesia has no cases of the ... Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:53:00 +0100.

SINGAPORE: Since the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak was declared on Dec 31, 2019, Indonesia’s Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Indonesia Country Office have been working in unison. They have also collabor
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12:29 Earthquakes shake Asian countriesThu, 06 Feb 2020 18:54:00 +0100.

6 de febrero de 2020, 12:29 Tokyo, Feb 6 (Prensa Latina) Seismological agencies in Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia are reporting telluric movements in different areas, although they rule out the possibility of tsunamis in those nations
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MIL-OSI Asia-Pac: 6.1 magnitude quake jolts central Indonesia, not pot ... Thu, 06 Feb 2020 17:56:00 +0100.

The quake hit at 20:40 p.m. local time, with the epicenter located 160 km northwest of Melonguane of the province, and at a depth of 10 km under sea bed, the official in charge in the agency told Xinhua via phone. “We did not issue a tsunam
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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 (84), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), INFORM (4), USGS (2), NOAA (1),