M 4.5 in Indonesia on 21 Nov 2018 05:32 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 1162885
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 108.46 Km
Lat/Lon: 3.7205 , 96.9382
Event Date: 21 Nov 2018 05:32 UTC
21 Nov 2018 12:32 Local
Exposed Population:
760000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Nov 2018 06:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000husw Scaled population (vector) 6.31  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 221 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

Danceathon helps Plymtree pupils raise hundredsSat, 24 Nov 2018 16:52:00 +0100.

. A danceathon has raised pounds for children affected by a recent tsunami. On Saturday November 17 Parliament Club at Plymtree CofE Primary School lead a danceathon in the playground in aid of the children who were and still are suffering
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Press releasesSat, 24 Nov 2018 05:28:00 +0100.

European Commission - Press release Brussels, 23 November 2018 As millions of people continue to be in need of humanitarian assistance in Sudan, the Commission has announced an additional €18 million in emergency aid. This brings total EU h
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Improve insurance against disastersFri, 23 Nov 2018 12:47:00 +0100.

PREMIUM The deaths and devastation from the powerful earthquake in Central Sulawesi in September is a rude awakening of how vulnerable Indonesia is to natural disasters. The strong tremors, measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale, and the ensuin
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Academia Irvan Rahardjo - Improve insurance against disastersFri, 23 Nov 2018 05:54:00 +0100.

Desperate times: Earthquake victims loot a warehouse in Mamboro in North Palu, Central Sulawesi, on Monday. Residents from North Palu to Donggala’s western coast have been looting warehouses and stores to obtain basic commodities as the hum
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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),