M 4.5 in Malaysia on 23 Jun 2015 09:32 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 1058380
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 15.17 Km
Lat/Lon: 6.1592 , 116.6058
Event Date: 23 Jun 2015 09:32 UTC
23 Jun 2015 17:32 Local
Exposed Population:
1162528 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jun 2015 21:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Mount Kinabalu and cultural (in)sensitivity 6/25/2015 6:31:00 AM.

Four hikers-one Dutch, two British, one Canadian-were recently jailed in Malaysia for "committing an obscene act in public"-namely, taking naked photos of themselves at the summit plateau of Mount Kinabalu, at 4,095 metres one of the highes
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Travellers, don't forget to pack cultural sensitivity 6/25/2015 6:31:00 AM.

Four hikers were recently jailed in Malaysia for "committing an obscene act in public" - taking naked photos of themselves at the summit plateau of 4,095m-high Mount Kinabalu, one of the highest peaks in South-east Asia and a popular touris
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Mount Kinabalu and cultural (in)sensitivity 6/25/2015 2:46:00 AM.

Four hikers—one Dutch, two British, one Canadian—were recently jailed in Malaysia for “committing an obscene act in public”—namely, taking naked photos of themselves at the summit plateau of Mount Kinabalu, at 4,095 metres one of the highes
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Mount Kinabalu and cultural (in)sensitivity 6/24/2015 10:59:00 AM.

Gideon Lasco. Philippine Daily Inquirer. Publication Date : 24-06-2015. Four hikersone Dutch, two British, one Canadianwere recently jailed in Malaysia for “committing an obscene act in public”namely, taking naked photos of themselves at th
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),