Overall Green Earthquake alert in Indonesia on 23 Aug 2014 09:02 UTC

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M 4.5 in Indonesia on 23 Aug 2014 09:02 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 1038477
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.5M
Depth:	35 Km
Lat/Lon:	3.81 , 126.99
Event Date:	23 Aug 2014 09:02 UTC 23 Aug 2014 17:02 Local
Exposed Population:	218401 people within 100km
Inserted at:	23 Aug 2014 09:48 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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