M 6.5 in Indonesia on 15 Dec 2017 16:47 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 1128758
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.5M
Depth: 91.86 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.7343 , 108.023
Event Date: 15 Dec 2017 16:47 UTC
15 Dec 2017 23:47 Local
Exposed Population: 430000 people in MMI
13020000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Dec 2017 17:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us2000c4v8 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0.01m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 468 | About casualties: 103 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake hits Indonesia's Java island, 1 death confirmedSat, 16 Dec 2017 01:49:00 +0100.

A strong earthquake shook Indonesia's most populous island of Java on Friday night, collapsing buildings and killing at least one person. The quake struck at 11:47 p.m. and triggered a tsunami warning for parts of Java's coastline that was
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Very strong deep earthquake below the Java coast, Indonesia + 2 killed ... Sat, 16 Dec 2017 01:48:00 +0100.

Semarang, Central Java - Moderate shaking; Lembang - about 1 mins; Tangerang - Light shaking; Tembalang, Semarang - feel shaky a few bit seconds, sorry bad language; Cirebon - Moderate shaking; Jakarta - maybe a good 20-25 seconds. No visib
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Earthquake hits Indonesia's Java island, deaths reportedSat, 16 Dec 2017 01:33:00 +0100.

A strong earthquake shook Indonesia's most populous island of Java on Friday night, collapsing buildings and killing at least one person. The quake struck at 11:47 p.m. and triggered a tsunami warning for parts of Java's coastline that was
...(more)
Earthquake hits Indonesia's JavaSat, 16 Dec 2017 01:30:00 +0100.

, at least one death confirmed. Updated December 16, 2017 11:26:41. An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 struck the island of Java in Indonesia, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with authorities reporting at least one death and damag
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),