M 5.5 in Indonesia on 06 Dec 2017 16:06 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 1128119
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 43.31 Km
Lat/Lon: -0.6889 , 123.7047
Event Date: 06 Dec 2017 16:06 UTC
07 Dec 2017 00:06 Local
Exposed Population: 160000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Dec 2017 16:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000bms0 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

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HEAVY RAIN CAUSE SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE INThu, 07 Dec 2017 08:13:00 +0100.

SOLOMONS Landslides and floods hit Guadalcanal, Malaita. By Eddie Osifelo HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Solomon Star, Jan. 22, 2010) – In the Solomon Islands, heavy rainfall in the last two days has caused much damage to Honiara and other parts
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Ze zijn een vergeten beroepsgroep als het om de aanpak van hoarding gaat, vinden Johanna Hoekstra uit Hoornsterzwaag, Tineke ten Brug uit Leeuwarden, Christa de Bos uit Joure, Jenny van den Hurk uit Hemrik en Tea Rodenburg uit Akkrum. Met h
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),