M 5.6 in Indonesia on 25 Jan 2024 12:24 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 1412024
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 27.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.2505 , 121.0978
Event Date: 25 Jan 2024 12:24 UTC
25 Jan 2024 20:24 Local
Exposed Population: 7 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 25 Jan 2024 12:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ltpz 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

Articles: 49 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Light mag. 4.1 earthquake - Banda Sea on Monday, Jan 29, 2024, at 03:3 ... 2024-01-28T20:51+0100.

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Light mag. 4.9 earthquake - New Guinea, Papua New Guinea, on Monday, J ... 2024-01-28T18:38+0100.

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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),