M 4.7 in Indonesia on 07 Jan 2017 03:38 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 1102700
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -6.3601 , 103.8889
Event Date: 07 Jan 2017 03:38 UTC
07 Jan 2017 10:38 Local
Exposed Population:
About 8000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Jan 2017 04:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007rt4 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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),