M 5.2 in Indonesia on 08 Dec 2018 17:45 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 1164783
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 46.6 Km
Lat/Lon: -3.5645 , 101.474
Event Date: 08 Dec 2018 17:45 UTC
09 Dec 2018 00:45 Local
Exposed Population:
980000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Dec 2018 18:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000i53x Scaled population (vector) 5.41  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 180 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Natural disasters killed 4,211 people in Indonesia in past yearWed, 12 Dec 2018 16:03:00 +0100.

In Indonesia, an island country located at the epicenter of natural disasters, 4,211 people have died within the last year due to natural disasters, a National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB) official announced Wednesday. BNPB Head of
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El Polideportivo Andrés Estrada ya muestra el Belén Subacuático de Bom ... Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:39:00 +0100.

13.45 h. La recaudación se destinará este año a la construcción de viviendas en Ecuador y a un convoy de ayuda humanitaria a la zona de Indonesia afectada por el tsunami. , Antonio Nogales señala que “este belén es una actividad emblemática
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Bomberos Unidos Sin Fronteras abre en el Andrés Estrada su Belén Subac ... Wed, 12 Dec 2018 13:20:00 +0100.

El alcalde de Huelva, Gabriel Cruz , ha inaugurado esta mañana una nueva edición del tradicional Belén Subacuático de Bomberos Unidos Sin Fronteras, BUSF , que desde hoy regresa a la piscina del Polideportivo Municipal Andrés Estrada en su
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Indonesia: Indonesia: Earthquakes and Tsunami - Emergency Plan of Acti ... Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:59:00 +0100.

Description of the disaster. On 28 September 2018, a series of strong earthquakes struck Central Sulawesi Province. The strongest of which measured at 7.4 M earthquake and was just 10km deep with its epicenter in Donggala Regency, close to
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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),