M 5.5 in Indonesia on 06 Dec 2024 17:14 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 1456365
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 12.6 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.5555 , 121.2091
Event Date: 06 Dec 2024 17:14 UTC
07 Dec 2024 01:14 Local
Exposed Population: 220 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 06 Dec 2024 17:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000nwmn Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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),