M 4.8 in Indonesia on 21 May 2017 04:54 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 1113496
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: 5.74 , 127.5499
Event Date: 21 May 2017 04:54 UTC
21 May 2017 13:54 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 May 2017 05:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008tyw 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

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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),