M 5.6 in Indonesia on 11 Jan 2021 01:20 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 1251075
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 618.36 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.2407 , 120.4546
Event Date: 11 Jan 2021 01:20 UTC
11 Jan 2021 09:20 Local
Exposed Population:
About 41000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Jan 2021 01:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000d7c5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 152 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Se registra fuerte sismo de 6.2 grados en Indonesia; causa graves daño ... Fri, 15 Jan 2021 01:00:00 +0100.

Yakarta.- Un sismo de magnitud 6.2 ocurrido en las primeras horas de hoy en la provincia de Sulawesi Occidental, centro de Indonesia , dejó heridos y causó graves daños, informaron medios locales. Hospitales y edificios de oficinas fueron d
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Un puissant séisme fait plusieurs victimes et provoque de graves dégât ... Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:46:00 +0100.

Un puissant séisme fait plusieurs victimes et provoque de graves dégâts en Indonésie ---Un tremblement de terre de magnitude 6,2 sur l'échelle de Richter a frappé dans les premières heures de vendredi la province de Sulawesi occidental, dan
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Un puissant séisme fait plusieurs victimes et provoque de graves dégât ... Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:22:00 +0100.

Un tremblement de terre de magnitude 6,2 sur l'échelle de Richter a frappé dans les premières heures de vendredi la province de Sulawesi occidental, dans le centre de l'Indonésie, faisant plusieurs victimes et de graves dégâts matériels, a
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As World’s Deltas Sink, Rising Seas Are Far from Only CulpritThu, 14 Jan 2021 23:15:00 +0100.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of Hindu pilgrims flock to Sagar, a teardrop-shaped island in the Hooghly estuary, 60 miles south of Kolkata. A temple stands at the southern tip where the island faces the open sea. The location is revered
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),