M 4.7 in Indonesia on 23 Aug 2016 20:29 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 1092407
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 16.31 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.467 , 99.5222
Event Date: 23 Aug 2016 20:29 UTC
24 Aug 2016 03:29 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5614 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Aug 2016 17:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006g5c 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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Meteo assessment
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 637 | About casualties: 118 | Last hour: 0

Survival in the rubble dependent on many factorsSat, 27 Aug 2016 20:06:00 +0200.

NEW YORK--How long can people survive in the rubble of an earthquake? A week or more under the best circumstances, some experts say. That means the trapped victims aren't seriously injured, they have air to breathe and the weather isn't to
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Terremoti, a Matera il centro di eccellenza scientifica. Castelluccio: ... Sat, 27 Aug 2016 20:03:00 +0200.

MATERA – « Il Centro di geodesia spaziale di Matera da polo internazionale di eccellenza scientifica ha un ruolo importante da svolgere nello studio dei terremoti. È stato proprio qui, per esempio, che è stato misurato lo spostamento dell’a
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Singapore’s air quality remains unhealthy as haze worsensSat, 27 Aug 2016 18:11:00 +0200.

People take photos near the Singapore Flyer observatory wheel shrouded by haze August 26, 2016. ― Reuters pic SINGAPORE, Aug 27 ― Singapore’s air quality stood at unhealthy levels as haze from Indonesian forest fires intensified yesterday,
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Forest hotspots drop in Indonesia as efforts to fight fire stepped upSat, 27 Aug 2016 17:46:00 +0200.

JAKARTA， Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- The number of forest fire hotspots decreased significantly on Saturday as the government has boosted measures to douse fires. The Terra and Aqua satellite from NASA on Saturday detected zero hotspot in Sumatra I
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),