M 4.5 in Indonesia on 21 Oct 2016 01:45 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 1096101
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 57.34 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.9878 , 100.1438
Event Date: 21 Oct 2016 01:45 UTC
21 Oct 2016 08:45 Local
Exposed Population:
250869 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Oct 2016 02:12 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007fsg Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 849 | About casualties: 30 | Last hour: 0

El crecimiento matemático de los tumoresTue, 25 Oct 2016 00:06:00 +0200.

Un estudio de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ha realizado una descripción matemática sobre cómo los tumores inducen el crecimiento de vasos sanguíneos, que concluye que las puntas de los vasos se propagan como un tipo de onda solitaria
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Spreading the word on earthquake risksMon, 24 Oct 2016 22:47:00 +0200.

Until recently, those probabilities got little attention outside the seismic world. But this time, for a variety of reasons, the heightened risk blew up on social media, generating curiosity as well as a good amount of anxiety. This respons
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First the tsunami took their homes. Now it's taking their memoriesMon, 24 Oct 2016 21:37:00 +0200.

The 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami appears to have led to an increase in dementia in the years following the disaster. Scientists have shown the number of people with dementia symptoms trebled in the aftermath, with those who lost their
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Sismo de magnitud 4,3 sacude Lima sin causar víctimas o daños material ... Mon, 24 Oct 2016 19:41:00 +0200.

. Perú está ubicado en el llamado Cinturón de Fuego del Pacífico, donde se produce el 80% de la actividad sísmica a nivel mundial, razón por la cual sus autoridades de Defensa Civil organizan simulacros de sismo y tsunami en forma periódica
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),