M 4.9 in Indonesia on 05 Mar 2015 15:43 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 1049652
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 31.68 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.4158 , 134.5662
Event Date: 05 Mar 2015 15:43 UTC
06 Mar 2015 00:43 Local
Exposed Population:
About 34108 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Mar 2015 15:13 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 310 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Investigadores de la UC serán parte de conferencia de la ONU sobre red ... Sat, 07 Mar 2015 18:12:00 +0100.

Los representantes nacionales serán liderados por Rodrigo Cienfuegos, director del CIGIDEN y académico de la universidad, quien compartirá la experiencia chilena ante las distintas catástrofes naturales que han azotado al país a lo largo de
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Rikuzentakata looks to future with new tourism venturesSat, 07 Mar 2015 15:34:00 +0100.

The coastal town of Rikuzentakata in southeastern Iwate Prefecture became an international symbol of the devastation wreaked by the tsunami that followed the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011. Lashed by waves up to 13 meters hig
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Loop Road families to be rehabilitatedSat, 07 Mar 2015 14:29:00 +0100.

In April, the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board will rehabilitate more than 500 fishermen, non-fishermen and their families, who live along the Loop Road at Marina Beach, by shifting them to the Kannagi Nagar Slum Board tenements at Okkiam-Th
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SNAPSHOT: Fixed-point observation shows change of disaster-hit areasSat, 07 Mar 2015 12:31:00 +0100.

19:10 7 March 2015 SNAPSHOT: Fixed-point observation shows change of disaster-hit areas. SENDAI, Japan, March 7, Kyodo. Kyodo News photojournalists conduct fixed-point observations at several areas in the disaster-hit northeastern Japan pr
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),