M 5 in West Of Macquarie Island on 04 Dec 2016 05:59 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 1099957
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -52.0893 , 139.5031
Event Date: 04 Dec 2016 05:59 UTC
04 Dec 2016 14:59 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Dec 2016 06:32 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007erl 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: 2342 | About casualties: 318 | Last hour: 0

Nearly 100 killed, hundreds hurt as quake strikes Indonesia's AcehThu, 08 Dec 2016 05:58:00 +0100.

PIDIE JAYA, Indonesia--Nearly 100 people were killed and hundreds injured in Indonesia on Wednesday when a strong earthquake hit its Aceh province and rescuers used earth movers and bare hands to search for survivors in scores of toppled bu
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Más de 90 muertos tras un seísmo de magnitud 6,5 en IndonesiaThu, 08 Dec 2016 05:57:00 +0100.

Las autoridades de Indonesia elevaron a 92 el número de muertos por el terremoto de magnitud 6,5 en la escala de Richter que sacudió hoy la provincia de Aceh, en el norte de la isla de Sumatra, informó la agencia local Antara. La Agencia Na
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CARE Team Leads Assessment in Areas Affected by Indonesian EarthquakeThu, 08 Dec 2016 05:55:00 +0100.

JAKARTA (Dec. 7, 2016) — Global humanitarian organization CARE is leading assessments in the province of Aceh, Indonesia, after a 6.5 magnitude earthquake struck the region, killing dozens of people and destroying homes and buildings, inclu
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Search resumes after Indonesian quake as death toll passes 100Thu, 08 Dec 2016 05:55:00 +0100.

PIDIE JAYA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Rescue efforts resumed in Indonesia's Aceh province on Thursday after a strong earthquake killed more than 100 people, while medical teams struggled to treat the hundreds of injured as supplies trickled slo
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),