M 5.7 in Indonesia on 26 Apr 2016 04:19 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 1085176
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 74.97 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.4689 , 140.1815
Event Date: 26 Apr 2016 04:19 UTC
26 Apr 2016 13:19 Local
Exposed Population:
244117 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Apr 2016 04:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.6 -0.6
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

Articles: 309 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

Five myths about the Pacific RimSat, 30 Apr 2016 02:39:00 +0200.

The Really Big One , the New Yorker story for which Kathryn Schulz won a Pulitzer Prize this year, explained the potential dangers of living near the large Cascadia fault in the Pacific Northwest. And the plate collision zones under South A
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الانتخابات البلدية: لا مركزية إدارية.. ومسيحيةSat, 30 Apr 2016 01:19:00 +0200.

كلّما اقتربت الانتخابات البلدية والاختيارية من خواتيمها تكشّفت دلالات جديدة وراء هذا الاستحقاق، هذه المرّة، أبرزها نزعتان: الأولى عامة على امتداد الجمهورية عنوانها التوق الى لامركزية إدارية في ظلّ عجز السلطة المركزية وترهّلها، والثانية مسيح
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Querellantes Caso Maremoto: “Es una derrota de la Justicia”Sat, 30 Apr 2016 01:02:00 +0200.

La Undécima sala de la Corte de Apelaciones confirmó la suspensión condicional de Caso Maremoto por lo que no se llevará a juicio oral a los seis imputados en la Investigación de responsabilidad por la fallida alerta de maremoto del 27 de f
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Magnitude 7.0 quake strikes VanuatuSat, 30 Apr 2016 00:21:00 +0200.

VANUATU - A magnitude 7.0 quake, off Vanuatu's central island of Malekula, was felt widely in the country. The US geological survey said the quake occurred just after 7.30am yesterday (1930 UTC) at a depth of 10 kilometres. It struck 31km e
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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),