M 5.8 in Indonesia on 30 Dec 2018 08:39 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 1166674
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 168.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.657 , 102.3488
Event Date: 30 Dec 2018 08:39 UTC
30 Dec 2018 15:39 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VII
1770000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Dec 2018 08:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000iz50 Scaled population (vector) 2  
  C1 shakemap -1.73  
  C2 shakemap 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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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),