M 4.8 in Indonesia on 16 Mar 2017 17:16 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 1107986
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 88.94 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.0864 , 127.7516
Event Date: 16 Mar 2017 17:16 UTC
17 Mar 2017 02:16 Local
Exposed Population:
About 6000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Mar 2017 19:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us20008sii Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 401 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

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Fukushima farmers grow traditional brown cottonMon, 20 Mar 2017 16:24:00 +0100.

The Great East Japan earthquake and its aftermath made agricultural land in Fukushima difficult to farm. The effects of the tsunami and nuclear disaster left soil with a high concentration of salt, which made it hard to grow traditional foo
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Haïti - AVIS : Exercice d'alerte au tsunami (Caribe Wave 17)Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:20:00 +0100.

Les pays riverains de la mer des Caraïbes organisent mardi 21 mars 2017 un exercice d’alerte, visant à évaluer et actualiser leurs plans de réponse aux tsunamis. Il s’agit de mettre à l’épreuve le Système d’alerte rapide aux tsunamis et aux
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Fidel Castro y el Béisbol en Cuba (+Audio)Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:17:00 +0100.

Fidel Castro y el B�isbol en Cuba (+Audio) 2017-03-20 10:50:33 / web@radiorebelde.icrt.cu. El 20 de marzo de 2009, Fidel elabora la Reflexión titulada Gloria a los buenos! Trata con respecto al equipo cubano de pelota que participó en la se
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),