M 4.6 in Indonesia on 11 Mar 2016 10:58 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 1082267
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.7436 , 125.8964
Event Date: 11 Mar 2016 10:58 UTC
11 Mar 2016 19:58 Local
Exposed Population:
341899 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Mar 2016 11:51 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  
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Latest media headlines

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Indonesia: Multi-stakeholder group formed to help solve problem of for.. 3/14/2016 5:23:00 PM.

Author: Muhamad Al Azhari, Jakarta Globe, Published on: 14 March 2016. "Multi-stakeholder alliance formed to fight fires in Indonesia", 11 Mar 2016. A group of leading forestry and agriculture companies, NGOs and other partners announced…th
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Indonesia to better manage forest and land fires in 2016: Officials, p.. 3/12/2016 10:15:00 AM.

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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),