M 6.6 in Indonesia on 06 Jan 2019 17:27 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 1167278
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 60.55 Km
Lat/Lon: 2.2287 , 126.7432
Event Date: 06 Jan 2019 17:27 UTC
07 Jan 2019 02:27 Local
Exposed Population: About 7000 people in MMI
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jan 2019 17:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us2000j0uj Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 473 | About casualties: 39 | Last hour: 0

Indonesia hastens construction of temporary houses for tsunami victimsThu, 10 Jan 2019 13:48:00 +0100.

Jakarta (VNA) – The Indonesian Government is speeding up construction on temporary houses for victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Palu, Central Sulawesi, Vice President Jusuf Kalla has stated. Kalla, who is also the Palu disaster mitig
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Woman gets the surprise of her life after tsunamiThu, 10 Jan 2019 11:08:00 +0100.

By Muhammad Afiq Mohd Asri BANTEN (Indonesia), Jan 10 (Bernama) Relieved, stunned, overjoyed and extremely thankful was how Damia, 35, felt when she saw the husband and son she feared were dead standing where her house used to be before a t
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Indonesia EARTHQUAKE: 5.1 magnitude quake hits off coast of AcehThu, 10 Jan 2019 04:49:00 +0100.

The quake landed off the coast of Samatra, the northern island of Indonesia, less than 200km from the city of Aceh. It follows a series of quakes hitting the Maluku Islands on the other side of the Asian nation. The tremor struck just befor
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Abu Dhabi campaign shines a light on sustainability visionWed, 09 Jan 2019 18:36:00 +0100.

Shortly after the sun had set in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, 2,000 solar lanterns were lit to reveal the Zayed Sustainability Prize logo. The 20 metre by 20m light installation marked the conclusion of a one-month campaign that saw the distribu
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),