M 4.5 in Indonesia on 30 Apr 2018 16:39 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 1141664
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 235.05 Km
Lat/Lon: 2.6989 , 128.6127
Event Date: 30 Apr 2018 16:39 UTC
01 May 2018 01:39 Local
Exposed Population:
110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Apr 2018 18:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000dut0 Scaled population (vector) 5.21  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 99 | About casualties: 43 | Last hour: 0

Growing 'dead zone' confirmed by underwater robots in the Gulf of OmanMon, 30 Apr 2018 02:10:00 +0200.

New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) has confirmed a dramatic decrease in oxygen in the Gulf of Oman part of the Arabian Sea. But the environmental disaster is worse than expected. The 'dead zone' was confirmed by underwate
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Ocean warming can predict land warming with simple modelSat, 28 Apr 2018 01:27:00 +0200.

Credit: Imperial College London. The temperature trend of continents can be estimated by measuring warming of nearby oceans, revealing a simple behaviour of the climate system. Researchers from Imperial College London and MIT have discover
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West PapuaFri, 27 Apr 2018 04:57:00 +0200.

A programme called 'Bright Indonesia' has been launched by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources to increase the electrification rate in the country's eastern provinces. A former West Papuan journalist has recently finished a novel
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5.6 Magnitude Earthquake Struck Indonesian CoastsMon, 23 Apr 2018 20:14:00 +0200.

Jakarta,April 23(Prensa Latina)5.6 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale struck Monday Indonesian coasts, a week after a quake which caused victims and property damages in Java Island. According to the US Geological Survey which regist
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),