M 4.5 in Northern Sumatera, Indonesia on 22 Jul 2015 00:12 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 1061021
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 23.47 Km
Lat/Lon: 2.3242 , 96.2524
Event Date: 22 Jul 2015 00:12 UTC
22 Jul 2015 07:12 Local
Exposed Population:
102798 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jul 2015 00:45 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: 403 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Autoridades monitorean costas venezolanas ante erupciones del volcán K ... Sat, 25 Jul 2015 23:28:00 +0200.

Caracas,25 de julio de 2015.- Distintos organismos del Gobierno Nacional monitorean la actividad sísmica en las costas del país, luego del alerta preventivo de tsunami emitido para las islas de Granada y San Vicente y las Granadinas, en el
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Autoridades monitorean costas venezolanas ante erupciones del volcán K ... Sat, 25 Jul 2015 23:14:00 +0200.

Caracas, 25 Jul. AVN.- Distintos organismos del Gobierno Nacional monitorean la actividad sísmica en las costas del país, luego del alerta preventivo de tsunami emitido para las islas de Granada y San Vicente y las Granadinas, en el Caribe,
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POINT OF VIEW/ Genichiro Takahashi: An eye-opening self-education abou ... Sat, 25 Jul 2015 23:14:00 +0200.

June 24, 2015. A pamphlet in “manga” form, published by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, promotes constitutional revision. Since many people were talking about it, I decided to check it out. Reading it gave me an unsettling feeling I co
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Autoridades monitorean costas venezolanas por posible alerta de tsunam ... Sat, 25 Jul 2015 23:05:00 +0200.

Distintos organismos del gobierno nacional monitorean la actividad sísmica en las costas del país, luego del alerta preventivo de tsunami emitido para las islas de Granada y San Vicente y las Granadinas, en el Caribe, debido a la actividad
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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),