M 4.9 in Indonesia on 31 Jul 2018 20:28 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 1152330
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 62.59 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.8712 , 100.2824
Event Date: 31 Jul 2018 20:28 UTC
01 Aug 2018 03:28 Local
Exposed Population:
420000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jul 2018 20:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000giip Scaled population (vector) 5.11  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 335 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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Powerful earthquakes may trigger other large quakes even over great distances, according to a study published in the journal Researchers from Oregon State University (OSU) analyzed seismic data from 1973 to 2016, finding that within three d
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Un séisme de magnitude 6,1 frappe l'est de l'Indonésie, pas d'alerte a ... Fri, 03 Aug 2018 11:30:00 +0200.

Un séisme de magnitude 6,1 a secoué vendredi Maluku dans l'est de l'Indonésie, alors que les autorités n'ont pas publié d'alerte au tsunami, a rapporté l'agence de météorologie et de géophysique. Le tremblement de terre s'est produit à 12h4
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M6.1 earthquake strikes off eastern IndonesiaFri, 03 Aug 2018 09:20:00 +0200.

JAKARTA, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- A magnitude-6.1 earthquake jolted Maluku of eastern Indonesia on Friday, the meteorology and geophysics agency reported here.

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