Two big earthquakes hit Mamuju and Majene areas, West Sulawesi, for two consecutive days. The first earthquake occurred on Thursday, January 14, 2021 at 14.45 Central Indonesian Time (WITA) with a magnitude 5.9 in Richter scale. Next, an earthquake with an even greater magnitude occurred the next day, on Friday January 15, 2021, in the morning at 02.28 WITA.
As a response to this disaster, Universitas Airlangga has sent AJU I Team to the Ksatria Airlangga Floating Hospital to help with the impact of the earthquake on January 17, 2021.