M 5.3 in Indonesia on 16 Jan 2017 15:06 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 1103362
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.6425 , 129.9771
Event Date: 16 Jan 2017 15:06 UTC
17 Jan 2017 00:06 Local
Exposed Population:
About 20000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jan 2017 16:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007tiy Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 484 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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Terremoti: si possono prevedere?Fri, 20 Jan 2017 14:05:00 +0100.

In questi giorni si sono sprecati fiumi di inchiostro e di parole sulla catastrofe naturale che ha colpito il nostro Paese. Tra i tanti argomenti emersi dall’ormai usuale circo mediatico di dichiarazioni e dibattiti allestito dopo ogni even
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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),