M 6.6 in Indonesia on 26 Aug 2012 15:05 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 119028
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 91.9 Km
Lat/Lon: 2.1969 , 126.835
Event Date: 26 Aug 2012 15:05 UTC
27 Aug 2012 00:05 Local
Exposed Population:
About 3480 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Aug 2012 19:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC n.a 0 0.5
usc000c76x Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (81), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), INFORM (4), USGS (2), NOAA (1),