M 5.3 in Indonesia on 21 Oct 2017 20:25 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 1124423
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.1898 , 129.7803
Event Date: 21 Oct 2017 20:25 UTC
22 Oct 2017 05:25 Local
Exposed Population:
About 21000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Oct 2017 20:41 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000avbq Scaled population (vector) 4.71  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 435 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

This 6,000-year-old human skull belongs to the world's earliest known ... Wed, 25 Oct 2017 20:08:00 +0200.

New analysis has found that a 6,000-year-old skull discovered at a site in Papua New Guinea in 1929 most likely belonged to the world's earliest known tsunami victim. The partially preserved skull was first discovered about 12 kilometres in
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Ältestes Tsunami-Opfer starb vor 6.000 JahrenWed, 25 Oct 2017 20:02:00 +0200.

Vor drei Jahren haben Golitko und Kollegen aus der Region deshalb die Arbeit ihres Vorgängers fortgesetzt. Sie fuhren an die Stelle der beschriebenen Mangroven, die vor 6.000 Jahren noch näher an der Küste lagen, entnahmen dem Boden Sedimen
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Colombia realiza Sexto Simulacro Nacional de Respuesta a EmergenciasWed, 25 Oct 2017 20:02:00 +0200.

Colombia llevó a cabo hoy el Sexto Simulacro Nacional de Respuesta a Emergencias que recreó en las diferentes regiones del país las consecuencias de un sismo, un tsunami y un huracán, informaron las autoridades. "Vamos un paso adelante si r
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¿Realmente es seguro ponerse debajo de una mesa en caso de sismo?Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:51:00 +0200.

Existen muchas recomendaciones sobre cómo actuar en caso de que se produzca un sismo de proporciones similares al que afectó a México. Una de ellas es resguardarse debajo de una mesa, para evitar ser golpeado por los objetos que podrían des
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),