M 4.5 in Indonesia on 19 Oct 2018 22:42 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 1159468
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 101.54 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.8913 , 128.6453
Event Date: 19 Oct 2018 22:42 UTC
20 Oct 2018 07:42 Local
Exposed Population:
About 65000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Oct 2018 23:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000hes7 Scaled population (vector) 4.2  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 380 | About casualties: 14 | Last hour: 0

Indonesia: Líder aseguró que terremoto y tsunami fueron "castigo divin ... Tue, 23 Oct 2018 22:32:00 +0200.

es un "castigo divino" por las actividades de la comunidad LGBT (lesbianas, gay, bisexuales y transexuales). Hamidi, ex viceprimer ministro de Malasia , señaló este martes durante una sesión en el Parlamento que la "destrucción" de la ciuda
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Poroshenko orders to send humanitarian aid to IndonesiaTue, 23 Oct 2018 21:14:00 +0200.

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree ordering the provision of humanitarian aid to Indonesia where a magnitude 7.5 earthquake and tsunami in late September killed over 1,700 people and caused mass destruction. The presid
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Gay activities behind Indonesia disasterTue, 23 Oct 2018 21:14:00 +0200.

Malaysia's opposition leader yesterday said a quake-tsunami that killed thousands in neighbouring Indonesia was "punishment from Allah" for the activities of gay people, sparking a storm of criticism. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who heads a party w
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Indonesia: UNICEF Indonesia Humanitarian Situation Report No. 1, (23 O ... Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:13:00 +0200.

Highlights Following the powerful 7.4 Richter scale earthquake that struck the north-western part of Sulawesi, Indonesia on 28 September with resulting tsunami, liquefaction and landslides, over 2,105 people are known to have died and over
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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),