M 5.5 in Indonesia on 16 Mar 2017 18:39 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 1107989
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -11.5091 , 114.5632
Event Date: 16 Mar 2017 18:39 UTC
17 Mar 2017 02:39 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Mar 2017 22:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008siq Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 402 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

World Vision's Heather McLeod on helping children around the globeMon, 20 Mar 2017 18:05:00 +0100.

Heather MacLeod, the Kiwi country director for World Vision Papua New Guinea, has travelled all over the world in her 25 years as a humanitarian. She has worked in more than 50 countries, and played a part in World Vision's response to some
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Este martes se realizará un ejercicio internacional de alerta de Tsuna ... Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:38:00 +0100.

Con el propósito de probar y mejorar la eficacia del sistema regional y nacional de alerta de tsunami en la región Caribe y adyacentes del mundo, se realizará el próximo martes 21 de marzo, a partir de las 9 a.m., el Ejercicio Caribe Wave 2
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Insicurezza nucleare: fermato il secondo reattore della centrale di Fl ... Mon, 20 Mar 2017 17:24:00 +0100.

Nella centrale atomica di Flamanville (nella foto) le cose non vanno per niente bene: anche il secondo reattore della centrale è stato fermato per un nuovo incidente. E si torna a parlare dell'insicurezza di questi impianti. Questa volta no
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The Caribbean is mobilizing 300,000 people for an epic tsunami drillMon, 20 Mar 2017 16:37:00 +0100.

If you hppen to be sunbathing on a quiet Caribbean beach next week, don’t be alarmed if a helicopter flies overhead warning everyone to evacuate to higher ground. It’s just a drill. A tsunami drill, actually, called Caribe Wave 2017, that w
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),