M 5.6 in Indonesia on 16 Dec 2019 14:49 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 1198458
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 42.43 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.9638 , 100.9418
Event Date: 16 Dec 2019 14:49 UTC
16 Dec 2019 21:49 Local
Exposed Population: 400000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Dec 2019 17:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60006s6p Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -1.73  
  C2 shakemap 0.79  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 127 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Temporary tsunami orphanage becomes permanent homeThu, 19 Dec 2019 07:50:00 +0100.

PHANGNGA: An orphanage in the southern province has been Watana Sittirachot's home since 2004, when a deadly tsunami killed hundreds of thousands of people, including many of his family members, in one of the biggest natural disasters in re
...(more)
Temporary Thai tsunami orphanage becomes a permanent homeThu, 19 Dec 2019 05:16:00 +0100.

PHANG NGA, Thailand (Reuters) - An orphanage in southern Thailand has been Watana Sittirachot’s home since 2004, when a deadly tsunami killed hundreds of thousands of people, including many of his family members, in one of the biggest natur
...(more)
Temporary Thai tsunami orphanage becomes a permanent homeThu, 19 Dec 2019 04:54:00 +0100.

PHANG NGA, Thailand (Reuters) - An orphanage in southern Thailand has been Watana Sittirachot’s home since 2004, when a deadly tsunami killed hundreds of thousands of people, including many of his family members, in one of the biggest natur
...(more)
Temporary Thai tsunami orphanage becomes a permanent homeThu, 19 Dec 2019 02:54:00 +0100.

PHANG NGA, Thailand (Reuters) - An orphanage in southern Thailand has been Watana Sittirachot’s home since 2004, when a deadly tsunami killed hundreds of thousands of people, including many of his family members, in one of the biggest natur
...(more)

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),