M 4.8 in Indonesia on 06 May 2017 10:21 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 1112240
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.5954 , 99.5259
Event Date: 06 May 2017 10:21 UTC
06 May 2017 17:21 Local
Exposed Population:
1850000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 May 2017 10:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us10008q2b Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 463 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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В Океании произошло мощное землетрясениеWed, 10 May 2017 07:55:00 +0200.

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12:20 Sistema Integral de Seguridad de Ecuador, referente en América L ... Wed, 10 May 2017 06:54:00 +0200.

10 de mayo de 2017, 00:20 Quito, 10 may (PL) El Sistema Integrado de Seguridad de Ecuador ECU 911 es hoy referente en Latinoamérica por sus logros en protección de la ciudadanía y atención a emergencias, especialmente por el trabajo realiza
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),