M 4.7 in Indonesia on 18 Sep 2018 07:27 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 1156964
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.2507 , 116.2843
Event Date: 18 Sep 2018 07:27 UTC
18 Sep 2018 15:27 Local
Exposed Population:
4180000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Sep 2018 07:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000hg94 Scaled population (vector) 6.75  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 307 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

World: Eighth Pacific Tsunami Drill set for September to November 2018Fri, 21 Sep 2018 16:56:00 +0200.

Over 40 countries around the Pacific Rim will participate in a mock tsunami scenario from September to November 2018. The purpose of this exercise is to test country tsunami decision-making procedures and communication systems and processes
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MIL-OSI Asia-Pacific: $10.419m set for earthquake victimsFri, 21 Sep 2018 16:47:00 +0200.

Source: Hong Kong Information Services. The Government has approved a total of $10.419 million in grants for four relief agencies to help earthquake victims in Indonesia. The Disaster Relief Fund grants were approved upon the advice of the
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Revolutionaries revisited: New fight of ex-combatantsFri, 21 Sep 2018 16:27:00 +0200.

PREMIUM Aceh struggled for 30 years to gain independence from Indonesia until a massive earthquake and tsunami hit in December 2004, and a peace agreement was achieved on Aug. 15, 2005. Similarly Maoists in Nepal struggled for 10 years to a
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MIL-OSI Asia-Pacific: Grants approved for earthquake victims in Indone ... Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:47:00 +0200.

Source: Hong Kong Government special administrative region. Grants approved for earthquake victims in Indonesia Grants approved for earthquake victims in Indonesia The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has accepted t
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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),