M 4.9 in Indonesia on 13 Apr 2018 07:22 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 1140214
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 132.35 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.5527 , 118.3354
Event Date: 13 Apr 2018 07:22 UTC
13 Apr 2018 15:22 Local
Exposed Population:
1190000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Apr 2018 07:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000dzgp Scaled population (vector) 6.43  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),