M 4.8 in Indonesia on 05 Aug 2015 15:41 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 1062312
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 58.49 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.0085 , 105.4655
Event Date: 05 Aug 2015 15:41 UTC
05 Aug 2015 22:41 Local
Exposed Population:
6970071 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Aug 2015 05:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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: 366 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

AKW-Neustart in Japan - trotz alles ProtesteSun, 09 Aug 2015 14:10:00 +0200.

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Opt CUTREMURE produse în largul SicilieiSun, 09 Aug 2015 12:45:00 +0200.

Potrivit Institutului italian de geofizică şi vulcanologie (INGV), cutremurele în avut loc în zona Insulei Alicudi, din cadrul Arhipelagului Eolie. Mişcările telurice au avut loc la adâncimi cuprinse între 4 şi 14 kilometri, fără a provoca
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Nagasaki marks 70th anniversary of atomic bombingSun, 09 Aug 2015 11:10:00 +0200.

A bell tolled in Nagasaki to signal the start of a minute of silence at 11:02 local time (0202 UTC) on Sunday, precisely 70 years after a US bomber air force plane dropped the atomic bomb on the city, killing around 74,000 people and injuri
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Nagasaki marks 70th anniversary of atomic bombingSun, 09 Aug 2015 10:50:00 +0200.

A bell tolled in Nagasaki to signal the start of a minute of silence at 11:02 local time (0202 UTC) on Sunday, precisely 70 years after a US bomber air force plane dropped the atomic bomb on the city, killing around 74,000 people and injuri
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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),