M 4.7 in Indonesia on 06 Jan 2017 10:33 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 1102647
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 3.7137 , 128.5137
Event Date: 06 Jan 2017 10:33 UTC
06 Jan 2017 19:33 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jan 2017 11:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007rmj Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 585 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

7.2-magnitude quake strikes off SuluTue, 10 Jan 2017 10:12:00 +0100.

MANILA A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck off Sulu on Tuesday afternoon, the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said. Phivolcs said the quake's epicenter is 223 kilometers southeast of Tongkil town. The quake struc
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Strong undersea earthquake strikes south PhilippinesTue, 10 Jan 2017 10:12:00 +0100.

A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 has struck under the Celebes Sea off the southern Philippines, but was far too deep to cause any damage and casualties or generate a tsunami. Renato Solidum of the Philippine Institute of Volcan
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Undersea quake hits south PhilippinesTue, 10 Jan 2017 09:54:00 +0100.

A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 has struck under the Celebes Sea off the southern Philippines, but was far too deep to cause any damage and casualties or generate a tsunami. Renato Solidum of the Philippine Institute of Volcan
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Sabah rattled by 7.3 quake in nearby PhilippinesTue, 10 Jan 2017 09:53:00 +0100.

Office staff at the KK Times Square building in the city were evacuated following the earthquake. ― Picture courtesy of Jamili Nais KOTA KINABALU, Jan 10 ― Anxiety flashed over Sabah briefly today after tremors felt here from a 7.3-magnitud
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),