M 4.6 in Indonesia on 20 Dec 2015 21:38 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 1076479
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 3.7324 , 117.5891
Event Date: 20 Dec 2015 21:38 UTC
21 Dec 2015 05:38 Local
Exposed Population:
626450 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Dec 2015 21:57 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 365 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Reabren el terminal pesquero de Coquimbo a más de tres meses del devas ... Thu, 24 Dec 2015 21:20:00 +0100.

tsunami del 16 de septiembre. Tras la emergencia, los microempresarios decidieron comercializar sus productos en la vía pública para reunir los recursos que permitieran reparar los locales comerciales. Así, los afectados fueron dando forma
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Journey of the ill-fated Tsunami trainThu, 24 Dec 2015 20:10:00 +0100.

11th year commemoration By December 26, 2004 is a date that will haunt the memories of all Sri Lankans as they relive memories of the deadly tsunami that washed away many innocent lives in just an instant. Heaps of dead bodies were piled up
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Les magasins pris d'assaut par les clients pour les achats de dernière ... Thu, 24 Dec 2015 19:45:00 +0100.

Toute cette journée, vous avez encore été nombreux à faire vos derniers achats de Noël. Un dernier cadeau, des courses de dernières minutes. Certains s'y étaient pris à temps, d'autres ont tout misé sur cette dernière journée. Julien Crête
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Japanese court gives OK to restart two nuclear reactorsThu, 24 Dec 2015 19:36:00 +0100.

KYODO / REUTERS. Protesters raise their fists and shout slogans during a rally against the court's decision to lift an injunction it had issued earlier banning Kansai Electric Power Co. from restarting four nuclear reactors at the Takahama
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),