M 5.5 in Indonesia on 17 Apr 2018 02:52 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 1140518
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.5308 , 131.2937
Event Date: 17 Apr 2018 02:52 UTC
17 Apr 2018 11:52 Local
Exposed Population: About 68000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Apr 2018 03:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000e1b6 Scaled population (vector) -8  
  C1 shakemap -1.73  
  C2 shakemap 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 210 | About casualties: 43 | Last hour: 0

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Indonesia: Banjarnegara earthquake displaces more than 2,000Fri, 20 Apr 2018 03:26:00 +0200.

By Agus Maryono. At least 2,000 people have been displaced and moved to shelters after an earthquake hit Banjarnegara, Central Java. The 4.4 Richter scale earthquake struck at 1:28 p.m. local time on Wednesday, totally destroying many build
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Mueren dos personas y 2.000 se ven desplazadas a causa de un terremoto ... Thu, 19 Apr 2018 20:15:00 +0200.

Al menos dos personas han muerto y otras 2.000 se han visto desplazadas a causa del terremoto registrado el miércoles en Java Central, en el centro de Indonesia, según han confirmado este jueves las autoridades. La Agencia de Mitigación de
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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),