M 5.5 in Indonesia on 21 Mar 2017 23:10 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 1108358
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 118.42 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.6136 , 115.3023
Event Date: 21 Mar 2017 23:10 UTC
22 Mar 2017 07:10 Local
Exposed Population: 5200000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Mar 2017 23:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.3 -0.3
us20008tme 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 344 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

El Océano después del tsunamiSat, 25 Mar 2017 20:51:00 +0100.

—Te fuiste de intercambio a Estados Unidos por seis meses, volviste, tocaste la puerta de CX44 (Panamericana) y empezaste Old Hits con 16 años, ¿siempre habías querido hacer radio? —Fue amor a primera vista. El primer fin de semana que volv
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I pericoli sismici che arrivano dal mare: "Pieno di Gas", la bomba sot ... Sat, 25 Mar 2017 20:06:00 +0100.

Ci sarebbe un vulcano di fango dietro la violenta emissione di gas nello Scoglio d'Affrica delle Formiche di Montecristo nel Tirreno dello scorso 16 marzo. Il gas ha provocato l'innalzamento di una colonna d’acqua di alcuni metri e la Capit
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Gempa Bumi 5,5 SR Guncang Waropen Papua, Tak Berpotensi TsunamiSat, 25 Mar 2017 16:38:00 +0100.

Jakarta - Gempa bumi berkekuatan 5,5 Skala Richter (SR) mengguncang sebelah tenggara Waropen, Papua. Gempa bumi tersebut tidak berpotensi tsunami. Berdasarkan informasi yang diperoleh dari Badan Meteorologi, Klimatologi, dan Geofisika (BMKG
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Most senior Japanese official in 45 years pays visit to TaiwanSat, 25 Mar 2017 14:57:00 +0100.

TAIPEI – Senior Vice Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Jiro Akama visited Taiwan on Saturday, becoming the most senior government official to visit the island since the two sides severed diplomatic ties in 1972. Although Akama
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),