M 4.7 in Indonesia on 16 May 2019 14:39 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 1179649
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 83.79 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.6904 , 112.535
Event Date: 16 May 2019 14:39 UTC
16 May 2019 21:39 Local
Exposed Population:
7000000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 May 2019 15:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
usd000a1ka Scaled population (vector) 6.36  
  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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 164 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

Indonesia: ASEAN Weekly Disaster Update, 13 – 19 May 2019Mon, 20 May 2019 12:44:00 +0200.

REGIONAL SUMMARY. • ASEAN region has been on its tranquil condition with no reported disasters during the past three weeks. However, the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) current state is on level “watch”, according to the ASEAN Specialis
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L’OIM fête ses 40 ans de collaboration avec le gouvernement d’Indonési ... Mon, 20 May 2019 05:22:00 +0200.

L’Organisation internationale pour les migrations a fêté ses 40 ans de collaboration avec le gouvernement d’Indonésie lors d’une réunion qui s’est tenue jeudi avec le Vice-président indonésien, Jusuf Kalla. « Ce fut un véritable plaisir de
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PREMIUM History of disaster preparedness and BNPB at a glanceMon, 20 May 2019 01:40:00 +0200.

Search for the missing: Rescue workers search for tsunami victims at Carita Beach in Pandeglang, Banten province, last December. Reports put the death count at 430 people with 1,500 others injured following the tsunami, which was triggered
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Torres submarinas cerca de Canarias de 1.000 metros de «altura»Sun, 19 May 2019 05:02:00 +0200.

Cerca de Canarias, a mirad del Atlántico y al norte de Bermudas, se encuentra una «ciudad perdida» formada por una serie de especies que habitan en la oscuridad de un kilómetro por debajo del superficie no iluminada por el sol. Es un caso d
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),