M 4.8 in Indonesia on 11 May 2017 21:01 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 1112760
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 43.74 Km
Lat/Lon: -4.5552 , 101.2334
Event Date: 11 May 2017 21:01 UTC
12 May 2017 04:01 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 May 2017 21:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008rp6 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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),