M 6.7 in Indonesia on 21 Dec 2016 00:17 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 1101443
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.7M
Depth: 151.53 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.5124 , 127.8686
Event Date: 21 Dec 2016 00:17 UTC
21 Dec 2016 09:17 Local
Exposed Population: About 80000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Dec 2016 01:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC n.a 0 0.5
us10007lkw Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 629 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

Samoan survivor glad to be home for ChristmasSun, 25 Dec 2016 00:03:00 +0100.

Imagine being away in a foreign country when a tragedy strikes and you’re an ocean away from home. This is the real life experience of Tevaga Paul Chan Tung, who originally from Samoa but was caught in the earthquake that struck the Solomon
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Canal Interoceánico avanza en NicaraguaSat, 24 Dec 2016 18:48:00 +0100.

El proyecto del Canal Interoceánico por Nicaragua, concesionado a la empresa china HKND está avanzando de acuerdo a lo previsto y sigue vivo, reporta el medio electrónico Informe Pastrán. Para garantizar un ambiente sostenible del proyecto,
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Canal Interoceánico avanza en NicaraguaSat, 24 Dec 2016 18:16:00 +0100.

El proyecto del Canal Interoceánico por Nicaragua, concesionado a la empresa china HKND está avanzando de acuerdo a lo previsto y sigue vivo, reporta el medio electrónico Informe Pastrán. Para garantizar un ambiente sostenible del proyecto,
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Más de la mitad del mundo ha sufrido desastres naturales en 2016Sat, 24 Dec 2016 17:18:00 +0100.

Este año un total de 102 países han sufrido algún tipo de desastre natural, lo que ha dejado un saldo de 411 millones de personas afectadas, 7.628 muertes y 97.000 millones de dólares en pérdidas económicas, según un estudio del Centro para
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),