M 5.1 in Seram, Indonesia on 20 Feb 2016 01:26 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 1080968
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 14.88 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.0432 , 129.4154
Event Date: 20 Feb 2016 01:26 UTC
20 Feb 2016 10:26 Local
Exposed Population:
316098 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Feb 2016 01:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 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: 106 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

India: South Asia Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability & Learning (M ... Tue, 23 Feb 2016 23:43:00 +0100.

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رئيس وزراء البحرين: الأمير أرسى دعائم وطن مزدهر وعصري سفارات الكويت بم ... Tue, 23 Feb 2016 22:16:00 +0100.

عواصم- كونا: احتفلت سفارات الكويت في مختلف عواصم العالم بالأعياد الوطنية بحضور كبار المسؤولين بهذه الدول وأعضاء السلك الديبلوماسي للدول العربية والأجنبية الذين أشادوا بدور الكويت في مختلف المجالات أشاد رئيس الوزراء البحريني الأمير خليفة بن
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سفاراتنا حول العالم احتفلت بالأعياد: الكويت وأهلها وعلى مر التاريخ على ... Tue, 23 Feb 2016 20:36:00 +0100.

أقامت سفاراتنا حول العالم حفل استقبال بمناسبة العيد الوطني الـ 55 لاستقلال الكويت والذكرى الـ 25 لتحريرها والذكرى العاشرة لتولي صاحب السمو الامير الشيخ صباح الاحمد مقاليد الحكم. وفي البداية، رفع سفيرنا لدى المملكة العربية السعودية الشيخ ثام
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Antarctica earthquake: Strong tremor strikes south of AustraliaTue, 23 Feb 2016 19:59:00 +0100.

The earthquake, which struck at about 5:08 a.m. Sydney time on Wednesday, was centered about 454 kilometers (282 miles) northeast of the French scientific station Dumont d'Urville in Antarctica, or about 2,261 kilometers (1,405 miles) south
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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),