M 5.6 in Indonesia on 31 Mar 2017 11:21 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 1109087
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 93.04 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.334 , 120.6224
Event Date: 31 Mar 2017 11:21 UTC
31 Mar 2017 19:21 Local
Exposed Population: 600000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Mar 2017 11:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.5 -0.5
us10008dhp Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 278 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

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Plantación de almendros en memoria de FukushimaTue, 04 Apr 2017 10:59:00 +0200.

04/04/2017 10:21. Esta mañana se ha celebrado en las inmediaciones del Aulario Rosa de Gálvez la plantación de 10 almendros con los que se quiere rendir homenaje a las víctimas del desastre nuclear de Fukushima. La plantación la ha organiza
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CNN news anchor to speak at UAPBTue, 04 Apr 2017 09:47:00 +0200.

PINE BLUFF -- Fredricka Whitfield, a CNN news anchor and award-winning journalist, will be the keynote speaker at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Cross-Phipps Auditorium, Caldwell Hall, at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. Whitfield anchors th
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Security plan approved for 2020 Games as Abe touts conspiracy billTue, 04 Apr 2017 09:40:00 +0200.

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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),