M 4.8 in Indonesia on 06 Jan 2017 11:03 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 1102648
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 1.4252 , 98.0419
Event Date: 06 Jan 2017 11:03 UTC
06 Jan 2017 18:03 Local
Exposed Population:
1450000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jan 2017 11:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us10007rmq Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 592 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Powerful undersea quake hits south Philippines, no damageTue, 10 Jan 2017 10:36:00 +0100.

Manila: 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 Philippine Insti
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Powerful undersea quake hits south Philippines, no damageTue, 10 Jan 2017 10:35:00 +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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Powerful Undersea Quake Hits South Philippines, No DamageTue, 10 Jan 2017 10:34:00 +0100.

10/01/2017 10:02, MANILA/Philippines (TAP) — 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. R
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The Philippines see 7.3-magnitude underwater earthquake strike in Cele ... Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:32:00 +0100.

BREAKING NEWS: Massive 7.3-magnitude underwater earthquake strikes off the Philippines 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck in Celebes Sea off the south of the Philippines; The quake was measured at a depth of 380 miles, the US Geological Survey
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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),