M 4.6 in Indonesia on 20 May 2019 04:52 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 1179999
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: 2.5169 , 128.2814
Event Date: 20 May 2019 04:52 UTC
20 May 2019 13:52 Local
Exposed Population:
240000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 May 2019 21:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70003net Scaled population (vector) 5.42  
  C1 earthquake 1.54  
  C2 earthquake -0.64  
  Country Vulnerability 0.09  
  INFORM_normalised 0.96  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 129 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

Earth Manual Project a creative way to learn disaster readinessTue, 21 May 2019 07:15:00 +0200.

Of days gone by: The Lost Homes project is meant to instill empathy while easing the survivors’ healing process.Through its adorable designs and smart concepts, the Earth Manual Project exhibition draws the public’s interest to learn about
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Stay or go? As weather gets wilder, states urged to prepare for displa ... Mon, 20 May 2019 18:32:00 +0200.

GENEVA - Warned that Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) would slam into the coastal part of the Philippine town of Dulag in November 2013, Leah C. Caminong's family rented a room 300 meters back from the shoreline where they planned to ride out the s
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World: Stay or go? As weather gets wilder, states urged to prepare for ... Mon, 20 May 2019 16:48:00 +0200.

With disasters uprooting 24 million people a year, pressure grows on governments to reduce the risk, and do more to protect the displaced. (Fixes number in para 18 after IDMC correction to 2.8 million from 3.8 million) By Megan Rowling. GEN
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Earth Manual Project: a creative way to learn disaster readinessMon, 20 May 2019 14:57:00 +0200.

Through its adorable designs and smart concepts, the Earth Manual Project exhibition draws the public’s interest to learn about disaster readiness. Situated on the Ring of Fire, Indonesia is no stranger to earthquakes, with major disasters
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),