M 4.6 in Indonesia on 17 Sep 2020 03:08 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 1235685
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 76.07 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.6872 , 130.7159
Event Date: 17 Sep 2020 03:08 UTC
17 Sep 2020 12:08 Local
Exposed Population:
About 19000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Sep 2020 22:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bp8p Scaled population (vector) 3.29  
  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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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),