M 6.3 in Indonesia on 31 Aug 2017 17:06 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1120358
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 45.08 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.1518 , 99.6846
Event Date: 31 Aug 2017 17:06 UTC
01 Sep 2017 00:06 Local
Exposed Population: 980000 people in MMI
1770000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Aug 2017 18:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 1.1 1.1
us2000adjh Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 555 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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Horror in the making! North Korean hunger for nuclear bombs puts world ... Mon, 04 Sep 2017 14:48:00 +0200.

Mon September 04 2017, 5:53 pm. FE Online In a direct dare to the US and rest of the world, North Korea carried out its sixth and most powerful nuclear weapon test on Sunday. US President Donald Trump took to Twitter to criticize both North
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Pakistan aims to increase depleting forest coverMon, 04 Sep 2017 13:55:00 +0200.

Islamabad: Pakistan was once home to beautiful and endless stretches of lush green trees but now most of its regions have a deserted look as the country has one of the highest deforestation rates in Asia. The forest cover of Pakistan has di
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مصادر: اليابان تخطط لبيع أسهم في البريد بقيمة 13 مليار دولارMon, 04 Sep 2017 13:42:00 +0200.

قالت ثلاثة مصادر مطلعة اليوم الاثنين إن الحكومة اليابانية تستعد لبيع أسهم تصل قيمتها إلى نحو 1.4 تريليون ين (13 مليار دولار) في شركة البريد اليابانية القابضة. وتخطط وزارة المالية لتنفيذ الطرح الثانوي اللاحق للطرح العام الأولي الضخم في 2015
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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),