M 5.1 in Indonesia on 18 Sep 2024 02:41 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 1446247
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.2397 , 107.5693
Event Date: 18 Sep 2024 02:41 UTC
18 Sep 2024 09:41 Local
Exposed Population:
130 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 22 Sep 2024 21:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000nsu0 Scaled population (vector) 1.38  
  C1 rapid impact -1.73  
  C2 rapid impact 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Indonesia - Earthquake (ECHO 26 Sep 2024)Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:03

  • An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 M (4.9 M for Indonesian authorities) with a depth of 10 kilometres hit Bandung Regency, West Java Province on 18 September, at 2.41 UTC (09.41 local time). The epicenter of the earthquake was inland 16 km east-southeast of Banjar city.
  • According to the National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure (BNPB), one person died, 75 people were injured -19 of them seriously, 470 people were displaced and almost 2,800 were affected across the Bandung regency. Moreover, almost 700 houses and public buildings have been damaged in the aforementioned regency.
  • National authorities are providing help for those affected and conducting the damage assessment. 
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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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),