M 4.7 in Indonesia on 29 Oct 2012 23:40 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 120572
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 9.1 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.1632 , 123.453
Event Date: 29 Oct 2012 23:40 UTC
30 Oct 2012 07:40 Local
Exposed Population:
690000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Oct 2012 00:04 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usb000dh1b Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),