M 4.8 in Indonesia on 05 May 2017 07:04 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 1112138
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 92.68 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.9451 , 130.2264
Event Date: 05 May 2017 07:04 UTC
05 May 2017 16:04 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 May 2017 07:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10008pld Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 363 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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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),