M 4.6 in Indonesia on 17 Feb 2017 05:04 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 1105756
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 45.34 Km
Lat/Lon: 4.5797 , 96.5593
Event Date: 17 Feb 2017 05:04 UTC
17 Feb 2017 12:04 Local
Exposed Population:
1900000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Feb 2017 07:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008ke5 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 438 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Delações vão causar 'tsunami' político no PaísTue, 21 Feb 2017 04:00:00 +0100.

Curitiba. Um dos principais negociadores de delações e acordos de leniência da Operação Lava-Jato, o procurador regional da República Carlos Fernando dos Santos Lima afirmou que as revelações de executivos e ex-funcionários da Odebrecht dev
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Top Asian News 4:49 a.m. GMTTue, 21 Feb 2017 02:26:00 +0100.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia's ambassador to North Korea has been recalled from Pyongyang amid rising tensions between the countries over the death in Kuala Lumpur of an estranged scion of North Korea's ruling family. The Malaysia
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Samoa earthquake, no threat to FijiTue, 21 Feb 2017 02:03:00 +0100.

Update: 12:31PM AN earthquake occurred this morning at 11:55am in Samoa. According to an alert from the Fiji Mineral Resources Department, the earthquake measured 5.1 on the richter scale and occurred at a depth of 76 km. There was no tsuna
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Copeco desmiente rumores sobre un futuro terremoto en TegucigalpaTue, 21 Feb 2017 01:31:00 +0100.

Tegucigalpa.- La Comisión Permanente de Contingencias (Copeco) realizó un llamado este día a la población en general para que no se alarmen ante una falsa información sobre una supuesta actividad sísmica que se hizo viral en los últimos día
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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),