Overall Green Earthquake alert in Indonesia on 28 Oct 2019 09:14 UTC

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M 4.6 in Indonesia on 28 Oct 2019 09:14 UTC

Hazard models

EQ parameters

Shakemap

Tsunami

Event summary

This earthquake is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

Earthquake Magnitude:	4.6M
Depth:	543.65 Km
Lat/Lon:	-5.5871 , 110.1357
Event Date:	28 Oct 2019 09:14 UTC 28 Oct 2019 16:14 Local
Exposed Population:	About 800 people within 100km
Source:	NEIC us600063vz
Inserted at:	28 Oct 2019 09:49 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score	1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us600063vz	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

Maximum expected impact using different data sources.

Episode Timeline

ID	Alert	Score	Date	Mag, Depth	MMI*	Population**	Tsunami risk***	Delay (hh:mm)	Source
1276133		0	28 Oct 2019 09:14	4.6M, 543.65km	N/A	Few people (in 100km)		00:35	NEIC

The episode that generated the alert; the next major evaluations beyond 12 hours will not trigger additional alerts.

The episode that has the last updated information.

* The max MMI detected for sources having shakemaps;
** The population detected in MMI>=7 for episode with shakemap or in a 100km radius;
*** The tsunami max height.

Exposed population

The earthquake happened in Indonesia , Province of Jawa Tengah (population 30,678,120) .

Radius	Population
100 km	<1000 people
75 km	<1000 people
50 km	<1000 people
20 km	no people
10 km	no people
5 km	no people
2 km	no people

Affected Provinces

Region Province	Country	Population
Jawa Tengah	Indonesia	30.7 million people
Jawa Barat	Indonesia	38.1 million people
Jawa Timur	Indonesia	33 million people
Yogyakarta	Indonesia	3.1 million people
Kalimantan Barat	Indonesia	3.5 million people
Kalimantan Tengah	Indonesia	1.5 million people
Sumatera Selatan	Indonesia	6.6 million people
Jakarta Raya	Indonesia	8.8 million people
Lampung	Indonesia	6.5 million people

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

More information

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