M 4.7 in Indonesia on 13 Dec 2016 22:57 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 1100817
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 17.62 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.7214 , 131.4796
Event Date: 13 Dec 2016 22:57 UTC
14 Dec 2016 07:57 Local
Exposed Population:
About 40234 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Dec 2016 23:19 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200080ky 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: 625 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Suspenden la alerta de...Sat, 17 Dec 2016 22:46:00 +0100.

El Centro de Alerta de Tsunami del Pacífico suspendió este sábado el aviso de tsunami anunciado unas horas antes debido al seísmo de magnitud 7,9 que golpeó en el noreste de Papúa Nueva Guinea. "Según los datos disponibles, la amenaza de ts
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Bay of Plenty Civil Defence - No text neededSat, 17 Dec 2016 22:42:00 +0100.

An assessment by Bay of Plenty Civil Defence Group at 12.30am last night found that no tsunami text warning was needed. Emergency Management Bay of Plenty Director Clinton Naude said that large earthquakes occur quite often in the Pacific.
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UPDATE: Tsunami warning after major 8.0 earthquakeSat, 17 Dec 2016 22:27:00 +0100.

UPDATE Dec 17 11.10pm: THE Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre has issued a tsunami threat to coastal areas of Papua New Guinea after an earlier 8.0 earthquake. Waves of up to one to three metres have been forecast to possibly hit the coast. IN
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Papua Naujojoje Gvinėjoje – stirpus žemės drebėjimasSat, 17 Dec 2016 22:06:00 +0100.

Prie Papua Naujosios Gvinėjos krantų etadienį įvykęs smarkus 7,9 balo žemės drebėjimas didesnės žalos veikiausiai nepadarė nebuvo jokių praneimų apie aukas, o paskelbtas cunamių pavojus vėliau buvo atauktas. Kaip nurodo JAV Geologijos tarn
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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),