M 5.1 in Indonesia on 29 May 2016 18:20 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 1087199
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 156.89 Km
Lat/Lon: -7.2729 , 128.8918
Event Date: 29 May 2016 18:20 UTC
30 May 2016 03:20 Local
Exposed Population:
About 15016 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 May 2016 18:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),