M 4.8 in Indonesia on 20 May 2016 17:49 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 1086628
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 35.29 Km
Lat/Lon: -2.2597 , 139.0081
Event Date: 20 May 2016 17:49 UTC
21 May 2016 02:49 Local
Exposed Population:
142233 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 May 2016 19:06 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 (41), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),