M 5 in Indonesia on 15 Aug 2013 18:54 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 1002424
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 49.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.2652 , 121.3307
Event Date: 15 Aug 2013 18:54 UTC
16 Aug 2013 02:54 Local
Exposed Population:
317867 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Aug 2013 19:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
usb000j43q Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 439 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

Philippine city remembers 1976 tsunami tragedy Monday, August 19, 2013 ... Mon, 19 Aug 2013 10:19:00 +0200.

PAGADIAN CITY (Mindanao Examiner / Aug. 19, 2013) - After 37 years, the local government of Pagadian City in the southern Philippine province of Zamboanga del Sur, looked back to the devastating tsunami that killed 1,440 people in August 17
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Namibia: Indonesia donates to drought fundMon, 19 Aug 2013 08:22:00 +0200.

Source: New Era Country: Indonesia, Namibia Loide Jason WINDHOEK - The Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia yesterday donated N$80 000 in support of the national drough relief effort. The money will be used to assist thousands of vulnerable
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Indien und China - Wie gefährlich ist das Wettrüsten in Asien?Sun, 18 Aug 2013 20:47:00 +0200.

Indien und China – die Supermächte im asiatischen Raum. Mit 1,2 Milliarden Menschen sind sie die beiden bevölkerungsreichsten Länder der Erde. Und beide Supermächte drängt es auf das Meer. Indien hat jetzt mit der Vorstellung seines ersten
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Norway's Weird Waves Traced to Japan EarthquakeSun, 18 Aug 2013 20:08:00 +0200.

On a calm winter's day in Norway two years ago, the sea suddenly started to boil and rise, sending freak waves rolling onto nearby shores and mystifying residents. Turns out, the massive magnitude-9.0 earthquake that shook Japan in 2011 als
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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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),