Overall Green Earthquake alert in Indonesia from 15 Dec 2017 16:47 UTC to 16:47

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M 6.8 in Indonesia from 15 Dec 2017 16:47 UTC to 16:47

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID	EQ 1128758
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.8M
Depth:	122 Km
Lat/Lon:	-8.02 , 107.97
Event Date:	15 Dec 2017 16:47 UTC 15 Dec 2017 23:47 Local
Exposed Population:	6890000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	15 Dec 2017 16:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		Tsunami		GDACS score
GEOFON	1.5		0		1.5
gfz2017ynci	Scaled population (vector)	6.55	Max wave scenario	0.01m
	C1 earthquake	1.54	Max wave realtime	0m
	C2 earthquake	-0.64
	Country Vulnerability	0.09
	INFORM_normalised	0.96

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Articles: 468 | About casualties: 103 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake hits Indonesia's Java island, 1 death confirmedSat, 16 Dec 2017 01:49:00 +0100.

A strong earthquake shook Indonesia's most populous island of Java on Friday night, collapsing buildings and killing at least one person. The quake struck at 11:47 p.m. and triggered a tsunami warning for parts of Java's coastline that was

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Very strong deep earthquake below the Java coast, Indonesia + 2 killed ... Sat, 16 Dec 2017 01:48:00 +0100.

Semarang, Central Java - Moderate shaking; Lembang - about 1 mins; Tangerang - Light shaking; Tembalang, Semarang - feel shaky a few bit seconds, sorry bad language; Cirebon - Moderate shaking; Jakarta - maybe a good 20-25 seconds. No visib

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Earthquake hits Indonesia's Java island, deaths reportedSat, 16 Dec 2017 01:33:00 +0100.

A strong earthquake shook Indonesia's most populous island of Java on Friday night, collapsing buildings and killing at least one person. The quake struck at 11:47 p.m. and triggered a tsunami warning for parts of Java's coastline that was

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Earthquake hits Indonesia's JavaSat, 16 Dec 2017 01:30:00 +0100.

, at least one death confirmed. Updated December 16, 2017 11:26:41. An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 struck the island of Java in Indonesia, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with authorities reporting at least one death and damag

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (88), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),

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