M 4.6 in Indonesia on 21 Aug 2017 04:51 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 1119712
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 43.16 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.3708 , 120.5532
Event Date: 21 Aug 2017 04:51 UTC
21 Aug 2017 12:51 Local
Exposed Population:
1170000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Aug 2017 05:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000aa2n 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 389 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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مجسّداً حالة اختناق بدت مُطبقة على أنفاس «حزب الله» نتيجة عسر هضمه لإنجازات الجيش اللبناني في الميدان ولموجة التسونامي الشعبية والإعلامية العارمة دعماً لمعركة «فجر الجرود» التي تخوضها الدولة بذراعها العسكرية تحريراً للأرض ودفاعاً عن سيادتها
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Crean las primeras hormigas genéticamente modificadasFri, 25 Aug 2017 01:08:00 +0200.

Por: Diana Hurtado Díaz Los perros tienen un extraordinario sentido del olfato y pueden ser entrenados para identificar químicos en concentraciones muy bajas, explicó Katherine Albro Houpt, profesora emérita de Medicina del Comportamiento e
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U.S. sailors, residents sue Tepco for damages over Fukushima radiation ... Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:23:00 +0200.

About 150 U.S. nationals, including sailors, have filed a damages suit against Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. seeking $5 billion in compensation for radiation exposure stemming from the 2011 reactor meltdowns in Fukushima Prefec
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TEPCO faces $5 bil lawsuit in U.S. over 2011 Fukushima disasterFri, 25 Aug 2017 00:11:00 +0200.

Tokyo Electric Power Co Holdings (TEPCO) said Thursday it faces another U.S. lawsuit over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, with the latest one demanding at least $5 billion in compensation. A total of 157 U.S. residents who were support
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),