M 4.6 in Indonesia on 30 Aug 2020 12:01 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 1232352
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 658.07 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.9813 , 120.1168
Event Date: 30 Aug 2020 12:01 UTC
30 Aug 2020 20:01 Local
Exposed Population:
430000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Aug 2020 12:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bf0u Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 215 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Two Powerful Earthquakes Shake Western Indonesia, No Casualties Report ... Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:46:00 +0200.

Two powerful and shallow undersea earthquakes shook western Indonesia on Wednesday, causing panic but no immediate reports of casualties or damage. The US Geological Survey said the magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred at a depth of 10 kilomet
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To improve disaster risk reduction, aid and tech experts look to women ... Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:34:00 +0200.

LONDON — Women bear the brunt of the impact of natural disasters, an outcome most starkly illustrated by mortality rates. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami saw male survivors in Indonesia and Sri Lanka outnumber their female counterparts by up
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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),