M 5.6 in Indonesia on 05 May 2024 20:37 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 1427428
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.3107 , 130.938
Event Date: 05 May 2024 20:37 UTC
06 May 2024 05:37 Local
Exposed Population: 4 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 05 May 2024 20:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mwkd Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 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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Latest media headlines

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Based on data from the past 54 years and our earthquake archive back to 1900, there are about 67 quakes on average per year in the area near the epicenter of this quake (within 100 km/61 mi): Mag. 6 or higher: 0.11 quakes per year (or 1 qu
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Light mag. 4.9 earthquake - 211 km northwest of Mendi, Southern Highla ... 2024-05-08T18:01+0200.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is Ambunti , a town with 2,100 inhabitants in Papua New Guinea , in 101 km (63 mi) distance northeast of the epicenter. People likely experienced weak shaking there.
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),