M 4.9 in Indonesia on 14 Mar 2017 09:13 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 1107742
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 68.52 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.337 , 137.5581
Event Date: 14 Mar 2017 09:13 UTC
14 Mar 2017 18:13 Local
Exposed Population:
350000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Mar 2017 09:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us100088uy Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 409 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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Venezuela participará en el Ejercicio Internacional del Simulacro de T ... Sat, 18 Mar 2017 05:51:00 +0100.

. Venezuela participará en el Ejercicio Internacional del Simulacro de Tsunami Caribe Wave. El próximo martes 21 de marzo, Venezuela participará en el Ejercicio Internacional del Simulacro de Tsunami Caribe Wave 2017, con el fin de evalua
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Mapa de inundaciones no se utilizó para reconstruir Piura tras “Niño”Sat, 18 Mar 2017 05:33:00 +0100.

El ingeniero y experto en sismología Julio Kuroiwa lamenta que l os diferentes municipios, entre ellos el de Piura, no hayan utilizado el mapa de inundaciones que data desde 1998 y con el cual se debió empezar la reconstrucción En entrevist
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),