M 6.1 in Indonesia on 01 Oct 2024 09:28 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 1447758
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 587.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.9971 , 124.9161
Event Date: 01 Oct 2024 09:28 UTC
01 Oct 2024 17:28 Local
Exposed Population: 5 thousand in MMI II
Inserted at: 01 Oct 2024 09:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000nhex 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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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),