M 5.5 in Indonesia on 14 Aug 2017 23:49 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 1119326
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 36.47 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.8627 , 140.2332
Event Date: 14 Aug 2017 23:49 UTC
15 Aug 2017 08:49 Local
Exposed Population:
210000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Aug 2017 00:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Indonesia= 4.8

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
us2000a88s Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),