M 5.5 in Indonesia on 18 Aug 2017 21:00 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 1119580
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 12.7 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.253 , 128.0446
Event Date: 18 Aug 2017 21:00 UTC
19 Aug 2017 06:00 Local
Exposed Population: Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Aug 2017 21:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a9k7 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),