M 7.2 in Northern Molucca Sea from 18 Jan 2023 06:06 UTC to 06:06

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1354757
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.2M
Depth: 60 Km
Lat/Lon: 2.751 , 127.111
Event Date: 18 Jan 2023 06:06 UTC
18 Jan 2023 15:06 Local
Exposed Population: 180 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 18 Jan 2023 06:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NTWC 0 0.2 0.2
at00roo3mf Scaled population (vector) 1.57 Max wave alert 0.21m  
  C1 rapid impact -1.73 Max wave realtime 0.21m  
  C2 rapid impact 0.79      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.96      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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 (91), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (2), NOAA (1),