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

Updated: this report is based on update number 3.

• Earthquake magnitude 6.7M and depth 37km
• on 17/04/2012 03:50 UTC
• 1800000 people within 100km

Known identifiers for this event: usc00095a2 (neicid)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 566 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

Erdbeben erschüttert Papua-Region in Indonesien
Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:59:00 +0200   maerkischeallgemeine (de)

Jakarta (dpa) - Ein schweres Erdbeben hat die Papua-Region im indonesischen Teil der Insel Neuguinea erschüttert. Wie die geophysikalische Behörde des Landes mitteilte, erreichten die Erdstöße eine ...

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USGS: Magnitude-6.1 quake strikes off Indonesia's Sumatra
Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:55:00 +0200   gmanews (en)

A strong 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra island on Saturday, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued.

People and organisations: US Geological Survey 

Tsunami en Arucas
Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:53:00 +0200   laprovincia (es)

El Juzgado logra, tras una década de denuncias, 'dar' con el responsable de un gigantesco vertedero ilegal

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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. The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: NEIC (4), EMM (1), JRC (21), (1), WMO (1), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1),

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