M 5.6 in Indonesia on 31 Mar 2017 11:21 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 1109087
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 93.04 Km
Lat/Lon: 0.334 , 120.6224
Event Date: 31 Mar 2017 11:21 UTC
31 Mar 2017 19:21 Local
Exposed Population: 600000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Mar 2017 11:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -0.5 -0.5
us10008dhp Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),