M 4.9 in Indonesia on 28 Oct 2016 19:11 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 1096760
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 16.48 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.3569 , 140.2882
Event Date: 28 Oct 2016 19:11 UTC
29 Oct 2016 04:11 Local
Exposed Population:
454953 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Oct 2016 15:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100072se 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: 451 | About casualties: 27 | Last hour: 0

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Tokyo panel details venue changes, cost cuts for 2020 GamesTue, 01 Nov 2016 17:34:00 +0100.

TOKYO (AP) — The rowing and canoeing venue for the 2020 Olympics should either be moved to a site hundreds of miles (kilometers) away in northern Japan or downgraded to a temporary facility in Tokyo, a city government cost-cutting panel sai
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La Nina brings country worst disasters in five yearsTue, 01 Nov 2016 17:30:00 +0100.

Under the spell of La Niña, Indonesia is experiencing its worst hydrological catastrophes in the past five years, according to the country’s disaster mitigation agency. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) recorded that 1,853 natu
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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),