Overall Green Earthquake in Indonesia on 08 Aug 2019 17:56 UTC

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M 4.8 in Indonesia on 08 Aug 2019 17:56 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 1186012
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	98.16 Km
Lat/Lon:	-3.708 , 140.3384
Event Date:	08 Aug 2019 17:56 UTC 09 Aug 2019 02:56 Local
Exposed Population:	180000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	08 Aug 2019 18:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	7.6 (Papua New Guinea)
INFORM Coping capacity list:	Papua New Guinea= 7.6; Indonesia= 4.8

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us600052f0	Scaled population (vector)	5.1
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1.3

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),

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