M 5 in Indonesia on 13 Mar 2017 07:15 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 1107669
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 28.68 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.0192 , 140.5986
Event Date: 13 Mar 2017 07:15 UTC
13 Mar 2017 16:15 Local
Exposed Population:
410000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Mar 2017 07:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list: Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Indonesia= 4.8

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
us100088ly 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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Fukushima confirmed as venue for Tokyo 2020 baseballFri, 17 Mar 2017 07:01:00 +0100.

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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),