M 4.8 in Indonesia on 19 Apr 2017 13:40 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 1110654
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 83.39 Km
Lat/Lon: 1.5086 , 128.2569
Event Date: 19 Apr 2017 13:40 UTC
19 Apr 2017 22:40 Local
Exposed Population:
560000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Apr 2017 05:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.9 -0.9
us10008iyz Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),