Overall Green Volcanic eruption for SOPUTAN in Indonesia on 03 Oct 2018 00:47 UTC

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Overall Green Volcanic eruption for SOPUTAN

in Indonesia

Event summary

GREEN alert: The SOPUTAN Volcanic eruption is unlikely to require external humanitarian assistance based on the exposed population and coping capacity.

GDACS ID	VO 513
Name:	SOPUTAN (266030)
Lat/Lon:	1.11 , 124.73
Event Date:	03 Oct 2018 UTC
Exposed Population 30km:	1910000 people within 100km
Exposed Population 100km:	No people affected
Max Volc. Explosivity Index VEI:
Population Exposure Index PEI:
Inserted at:	03 Oct 2018 07:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity of the alert score:	4.8 (Indonesia)

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Latest media headlines

Indonesian volcano erupts, just days after quake 10/5/2018 11:54:00 AM.

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