M 4.7 in Indonesia on 17 Nov 2018 10:41 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 1162532
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 76.1 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.8754 , 98.6156
Event Date: 17 Nov 2018 10:41 UTC
17 Nov 2018 17:41 Local
Exposed Population:
1180000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Nov 2018 11:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000ht53 Scaled population (vector) 5.2  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 256 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

Unpredictable weather fallout of climate change: scientistTue, 20 Nov 2018 21:20:00 +0100.

After the 2004 tsunami, many scientists believed that the possibility of a tidal wave could be predicted with the help of technology in the future. But, nobody could predict the recent tsunami in Indonesia. Citing this as an example of the
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Hong Kong relief fund grants 1.12 mln USD for Indonesian quake, tsunam ... Tue, 20 Nov 2018 13:43:00 +0100.

HONG KONG, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- The government of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Tuesday announced two grants totaling 8.8 million Hong Kong dollars (about 1.12 million U.S. dollars) from its Disaster Relief Fund
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Indonesia: The tsunami explosionMon, 19 Nov 2018 11:10:00 +0100.

“There was a rumbling sound, and then an explosion. I looked up and a tsunami wave was towering over my small fishing boat,” said Mr. Mushki, a 57 year-old fisherman from Pantoloan village near Palu, Indonesia. “The wave picked up my boat a
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Indonesia: Flash flood sweeps through village near liquefaction-hit ar ... Mon, 19 Nov 2018 08:53:00 +0100.

Ruslan Sangadji. Nearly two months after a strong earthquake and ensuing tsunami and soil liquefaction devastated the region, Sigi, Central Sulawesi, was struck by a flash flood on Friday, destroying dozens of houses in its way. The flood h
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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),