M 5.9 in Indonesia on 15 Apr 2018 19:30 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 1140420
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 36.48 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.3714 , 126.8715
Event Date: 15 Apr 2018 19:30 UTC
16 Apr 2018 04:30 Local
Exposed Population: 450000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Apr 2018 19:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000e0mq Scaled population (vector) -8  
  C1 shakemap -1.73  
  C2 shakemap 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 213 | About casualties: 43 | Last hour: 0

Two killed, 20 injured as 4.4 magnitude earthquake strikes IndonesiaThu, 19 Apr 2018 16:20:00 +0200.

Hundreds of people fled their homes as tremors struck Banjarnegara district of Central Java late on Wednesday. A shallow earthquake brought down hundreds of poorly built buildings in Indonesia, forcing more than 2,000 people to flee their
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Shallow earthquake in Indonesia kills 3, damages hundreds of homesThu, 19 Apr 2018 15:08:00 +0200.

JAKARTA, Indonesia — A shallow earthquake in central Indonesia has killed three people and damaged more than 300 homes, disaster officials said Thursday as they declared a two-week emergency for the affected areas. Indonesia’s Meteorology a
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Indonesia: Earthquake leaves two dead, over 300 buildings damagedThu, 19 Apr 2018 14:52:00 +0200.

Hanoi (VNA) – At least two people were killed, 21 others injured and over 300 buildings damaged in an earthquake which hit Indonesia’s Central Java province on April 18, a disaster agency official has said. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman o
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Dos muertos, 21 heridos y 2.000 evacuados, �ltimos datos del sismo en ... Thu, 19 Apr 2018 13:30:00 +0200.

Yakarta, 19 abr (EFE).- Las autoridades indonesias elevaron hoy a dos los muertos, 21 los heridos y m�s de 2.000 los evacuados por el terremoto de 4,4 grados que da�� cientos de edificios el mi�rcoles en el centro de la isla indonesia de Ja
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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),