M 4.9 in Indonesia on 27 Jul 2017 13:55 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 1118020
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10.56 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.832 , 129.0587
Event Date: 27 Jul 2017 13:55 UTC
27 Jul 2017 22:55 Local
Exposed Population:
440000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jul 2017 14:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
usd0008762 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 240 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Up to 80% of Thailand's tsunami warning system needs maintenanceMon, 31 Jul 2017 12:52:00 +0200.

Bangkok: Up to 80 per cent of Thailand's tsunami warning system needs maintenance work, the deputy director-general of its disaster prevention department said on Monday, more than a decade after the region was hit by a tsunami that killed 2
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Thailand’s tsunami warning system needs maintenanceMon, 31 Jul 2017 12:26:00 +0200.

Hanoi (VNA) – Up to 80 percent of Thailand’s tsunami warning system needs maintenance work after more than 10 years of working, the country’s Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation said on July 31. The department’s report showed t
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In Groenlandia onde fin a 100 metriMon, 31 Jul 2017 12:21:00 +0200.

(Di lunedì 31 luglio 2017) No non parliamo di Surf! Vi ricordate lo scorso 17 giugno 2017, un’onda entrando in un fiordo in Groellandia, aveva distrutto alcune case di Muugaatsiaq e che quattro persone risultavano disperse,.. non è stato su
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Up to 80% of Thailand’s tsunami warning system needs maintenanceMon, 31 Jul 2017 12:04:00 +0200.

Up to 80 percent of Thailand’s tsunami warning system needs maintenance work, the deputy director-general of its disaster prevention department said on Monday, more than a decade after the region was hit by a tsunami that killed 226,000 peo
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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),