M 4.7 in Indonesia on 21 May 2018 14:38 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 1143731
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.6759 , 102.3694
Event Date: 21 May 2018 14:38 UTC
21 May 2018 21:38 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 May 2018 15:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000e9c3 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: 19 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

West PapuaThu, 24 May 2018 04:10:00 +0200.

Multi-national mining giant Rio Tinto says it plans to sell its interest in the lucrative Grasberg mine in Indonesia's Papua province for $US3.5 billion. There should have been more transparency around a government-led delegation's visit t
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Papua New Guinea: Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian S ... Mon, 21 May 2018 12:20:00 +0200.

BANGLADESH. In the Rohingya refugee camps, during the period of 14-21 May, over 50 households and more than 150 individuals were affected by landslides and windstorms. To date, more than 21,300 refugees have been relocated from high risk lo
...(more)
Is the Ring of Fire more active with volcanoes, earthquakes than usual ... Tue, 15 May 2018 16:51:00 +0200.

Reports of earthquakes and volcano eruptions in regions along the Ring of Fire might lead some to believe that the level of activity in recent months is above average. The approximately 25,000-mile-long, horseshoe-shaped Ring of Fire outlin
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Volcano news - Archive Nr. 19Sat, 12 May 2018 15:41:00 +0200.

Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, United States ( Update 21:59 UTC) Hawaii officials said two homes in one of the rural subdivisions had been burned by lava from the erupting volcano. Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, United States ( Update 21:39 UTC) A M5.6
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),