M 4.8 in Indonesia on 16 Dec 2016 14:58 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 1101040
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 202.39 Km
Lat/Lon: -5.8157 , 129.3734
Event Date: 16 Dec 2016 14:58 UTC
16 Dec 2016 23:58 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Dec 2016 15:16 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us200081dw Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),