M 4.5 in Indonesia on 14 Aug 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 1091827
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.3977 , 127.2916
Event Date: 14 Aug 2016 04:19 UTC
14 Aug 2016 13:19 Local
Exposed Population:
About 11773 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Aug 2016 04:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006dps 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

Big palm oil, paper firms join efforts to douse fires 8/17/2016 11:11:00 PM.

Thousands of Indonesian firefighters have been deployed to battle raging land and forest fires, as the number of hot spots rises because of the dry season. Big palm oil and pulp-and-paper firms, which had been partly blamed for last year's
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Firemen work round the clock to control forest fires in Riau 8/17/2016 12:53:00 PM.

KUALA LUMPUR/JAKARTA: A special fire fighting team has been ordered to work round the clock to monitor forest fires at 74 hotspots in Indonesia's Riau province, Sumatra. The forest fires, in oil palm plantations, are reported to have affect
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Indonesia must go all out to prevent forest fires: Expert 8/17/2016 3:49:00 AM.

The Indonesian government, plantation companies and communities need to take immediate action to prevent forest fires as hot spots have started to emerge in a number of forested areas in Kalimantan and Sumatra, an expert has warned. “Before
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Transboundary haze laws ‘may not be best option to tackle errant firms.. 8/16/2016 11:03:00 PM.

KUALA LUMPUR — While Malaysia believes diplomacy can address issues related to transboundary haze, it is far from convinced that transboundary haze legislation is the best option to take action against errant companies that set forest fires
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),