M 5.5 in W. Caroline Islands, Micronesia on 17 Dec 2017 23:41 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 1128951
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 10.0395 , 140.1547
Event Date: 17 Dec 2017 23:41 UTC
18 Dec 2017 08:41 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Dec 2017 23:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000c5hb Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 117 | About casualties: 30 | Last hour: 0

Indonesia: West Java residents return to their homes after deadly trem ... Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:57:00 +0100.

Jakarta | Sat, December 16, 2017 | 05:12 pm. Residents of Tasikmalaya in West Java have returned to their homes to go about their daily activities, hours after leaving in a hurry in the middle of the night. They had fled following a tsunami
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Prévoir la puissance des tsunamisMon, 18 Dec 2017 19:37:00 +0100.

Si cette nouvelle méthode avait été mise au point avant le 11 mars 2011, peut-être la puissance du tsunami consécutif au tremblement de terre du Tohoku, qui engendra la catastrophe nucléaire de Fukushima et fit 20 000 morts, aurait-elle pu
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La Farn : vers une sûreté nucléaire unique au mondeMon, 18 Dec 2017 18:02:00 +0100.

Le nucléaire suscite de nombreuses peurs dans un climat qui s’est particulièrement tendu depuis plusieurs années. La catastrophe de Fukushima et les attentats perpétrés en France depuis 2012 constituent de sérieuses menaces à prendre en com
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Pangandaran residents relive 2006 nightmareMon, 18 Dec 2017 16:05:00 +0100.

PREMIUM Late on Friday, residents of Pangandaran in West Java had to relive the catastrophe of 2006, when a 6.8-magnitude earthquake caused a tsunami and killed at least 668 people. Friday’s quake measured 6.9 on the Richter scale, and, hav
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),