M 4.9 in Indonesia on 20 Oct 2018 04:21 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 1159479
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 55.36 Km
Lat/Lon: 3.2813 , 127.0777
Event Date: 20 Oct 2018 04:21 UTC
20 Oct 2018 12:21 Local
Exposed Population:
100000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Oct 2018 04:41 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000heuw Scaled population (vector) 4.38  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 380 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

Jakim issues e-book on LGBT rehab; minister says phenomenon ‘under con ... Wed, 24 Oct 2018 04:08:00 +0200.

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mujahid Yusof Rawa said the government did not accept LGBT lifestyles and will keep reaching out to the community in order to rehabilitate them. — Picture by Yusof Mat Isa. KUALA LUMPUR
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'How about God's wrath on the corrupted?': Syed Saddiq on Zahid's LGBT ... Wed, 24 Oct 2018 02:36:00 +0200.

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's Youth and Sports Minister Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman on Tuesday (Oct 23) took a jab at opposition leader that the recent quake-tsunami in Indonesia was "punishment from Allah" for the activities of gay people. "How ab
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Terremoto de indonesia es “castigo divino” contra LGTB, dice político ... Wed, 24 Oct 2018 00:15:00 +0200.

Hamidi, ex viceprimer ministro de Malasia, señaló este martes durante una sesión en el Parlamento que la “destrucción” de la ciudad de Palu y la muerte y desaparición de miles de personas se debe a la “ira de Allah” contra unos 1.000 miembr
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'NZ second riskiest country for insurance': global researchTue, 23 Oct 2018 23:43:00 +0200.

Titled: A World at risk: Closing the insurance gap - the report ranks 43 countries on their expected loss from disaster by looking at the probability of a natural disaster happening and multiplying that by the cost. New Zealand has an annua
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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.
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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),