M 5.3 in Indonesia on 14 May 2016 20:52 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 1086309
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -6.8773 , 101.7976
Event Date: 14 May 2016 20:52 UTC
15 May 2016 03:52 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 May 2016 21:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),