M 5.6 in Indonesia on 24 May 2017 09:10 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 1113689
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 15.43 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.7671 , 122.1581
Event Date: 24 May 2017 09:10 UTC
24 May 2017 17:10 Local
Exposed Population: About 8000 people in MMI
410000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 May 2017 09:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us10008usv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 310 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Gempa 4,4 SR Guncang Sumba Barat, Tak Berpotensi TsunamiSun, 28 May 2017 06:49:00 +0200.

Jakarta - Gempa bumi berkekuatan 4,4 skala Richter (SR) mengguncang wilayah Sumba Barat, Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT). Gempa tersebut tak berpotensi tsunami. Dikutip dari akun Twitter resmi Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi dan Geofisika (BMKG) g
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Crimen destituyenteSun, 28 May 2017 06:37:00 +0200.

Un viandante madrugador inmune a colas y rebatiñas ya que así lo pregona no tiene caso disputarse lo inexistente, llama mi atención, no por conversar con nadie cual un lunático, sino por la pretensión magisterial de sus engolados comentario
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It Changed My Life: Diving past setbacks for a dreamSun, 28 May 2017 02:06:00 +0200.

"But I've also worked very hard, and taken some big risks," he says with a grin. Life did not start on a rosy note for Mr Chew, who grew up in a one-room rental flat in Toa Payoh Lorong 5. "My father was a sailor. We saw him only once a yea
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Diving past setbacks for a dreamSat, 27 May 2017 23:47:00 +0200.

"But I've also worked very hard, and taken some big risks," he says with a grin. Life did not start on a rosy note for Mr Chew, who grew up in a one-room rental flat in Toa Payoh Lorong 5. "My father was a sailor. We saw him only once a yea
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),