Overall Green Earthquake alert in Indonesia on 14 Aug 2015 12:31 UTC

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M 4.9 in Indonesia on 14 Aug 2015 12:31 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 1063026
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.9M
Depth:	37.86 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.0002 , 140.0908
Event Date:	14 Aug 2015 12:31 UTC 14 Aug 2015 21:31 Local
Exposed Population:	203366 people within 100km
Inserted at:	14 Aug 2015 12:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
	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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