M 4.6 in Indonesia on 14 Jan 2018 04:53 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 1130921
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 48.63 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.5325 , 101.6271
Event Date: 14 Jan 2018 04:53 UTC
14 Jan 2018 11:53 Local
Exposed Population:
1290000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jan 2018 05:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000cjf6 Scaled population (vector) 5.66  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1165 | About casualties: 142 | Last hour: 0

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3:34 Expert Calls Caribbean to Strengthen Tsunami Alert SystemTue, 16 Jan 2018 21:49:00 +0100.

16 de enero de 2018, 15:34 Kingston, Jan 16 (Prensa Latina) The head the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Ronald Jackson called today to strengthen the tsunami alert systems in the region, according to reports by the J
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Realizarán simulacro de tsunami el 31 de enero en EsmeraldasTue, 16 Jan 2018 20:50:00 +0100.

El 31 de enero se realizará un simulacro de tsunami en Esmeraldas. Así lo dio a conocer el gobernador de la provincia, Pablo Hadathy, tras una reunión con Ana Arévalo Villamarín, representante de la Secretaría de Gestión de Riesgo. “Mientra
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Hawaii's Missile Alert Gaffe: Why Good Human–Machine Design Is Critica ... Tue, 16 Jan 2018 20:00:00 +0100.

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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.
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),