M 5.4 in Indonesia on 06 Jan 2017 10:25 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 1102646
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 54.4 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.472 , 98.0814
Event Date: 06 Jan 2017 10:25 UTC
06 Jan 2017 17:25 Local
Exposed Population:
1480000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jan 2017 10:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
us10007rmi Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 583 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Undersea quake hits south PhilippinesTue, 10 Jan 2017 09:54:00 +0100.

A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 has struck under the Celebes Sea off the southern Philippines, but was far too deep to cause any damage and casualties or generate a tsunami. Renato Solidum of the Philippine Institute of Volcan
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Sabah rattled by 7.3 quake in nearby PhilippinesTue, 10 Jan 2017 09:53:00 +0100.

Office staff at the KK Times Square building in the city were evacuated following the earthquake. ― Picture courtesy of Jamili Nais KOTA KINABALU, Jan 10 ― Anxiety flashed over Sabah briefly today after tremors felt here from a 7.3-magnitud
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Powerful undersea quake hits south Philippines, no damageTue, 10 Jan 2017 09:50:00 +0100.

MANILA, Philippines - A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck under the Celebes Sea off the southern Philippines on Tuesday but was far too deep to cause any damage and casualties or generate a tsunami. Renato Solidum of the Ph
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زلزال عنيف بقوة 7,3 درجات يضرب جنوب شرق الفلبينTue, 10 Jan 2017 09:49:00 +0100.

ذكر المعهد الأمريكي للجيوفيزياء أن زلزالًا عنيفًا بلغت قوته 7,3 درجات ضرب اليوم الثلاثاء جنوب شرق الفلبين. وأضاف المعهد الأمريكي أن الهزة الأرضية وقعت على عمق 617 مليومترًا في بحر سيليبس، وتأتي بعد خمسة أيام من زلزال بقوة 4,7 درجات في الم
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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),