M 6 in Indonesia on 20 Dec 2015 18:47 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 1076466
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 9.02 Km
Lat/Lon: 3.6331 , 117.6252
Event Date: 20 Dec 2015 18:47 UTC
21 Dec 2015 02:47 Local
Exposed Population: 650000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Dec 2015 19:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.7 0.7
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

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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),