Overall Green Earthquake alert in Indonesia on 24 Jan 2023 20:17 UTC

Tsunami

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude:	5.3M
Depth:	28.893 Km
Lat/Lon:	3.1707 , 127.0414
Event Date:	24 Jan 2023 20:17 UTC 25 Jan 2023 04:17 Local
Exposed Population:	70 thousand in MMI IV
Source:	NEIC us6000jj00
Inserted at:	27 Jan 2023 18:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score	1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000jj00	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

Episode Timeline

ID	Alert	Score	Date	Mag, Depth	MMI*	Population**	Tsunami risk***	Delay (hh:mm)	Source
1485300		0	24 Jan 2023 20:17	5.5M, 3.395km	3.65	N/A (in MMI>=VII)		00:21	NEIC
1485799		0	24 Jan 2023 20:17	5.3M, 28.893km	3.79	N/A (in MMI>=VII)		2d 21:47	NEIC

The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.

The episode that has the last updated information.

* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened off shore.

Radius	Population
100 km	66000 people
75 km	11000 people
50 km	no people
20 km	no people
10 km	no people
5 km	no people
2 km	no people

Affected Provinces

Affected populated places

Name	Region Province	Country	City class	Population	Distance
Damau	Sulawesi Utara	Indonesia	Village	-	68 km

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Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

Ports

Name	LOCODE	Country	Distance
Lirung		Indonesia	93 km

More information

For a full list of available products related to this event, please refer to the GDACS Resources page.

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