M 5.6 in Indonesia on 18 Jan 2018 17:48 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 1131238
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 26.68 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.4054 , 132.8017
Event Date: 18 Jan 2018 17:48 UTC
19 Jan 2018 02:48 Local
Exposed Population: 100000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Jan 2018 19:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
usd0008ke6 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

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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),