M 4.5 in Indonesia on 08 Jan 2017 07:47 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 1102767
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: 4.2308 , 126.94
Event Date: 08 Jan 2017 07:47 UTC
08 Jan 2017 15:47 Local
Exposed Population:
220000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Jan 2017 08:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007ryr Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

As hotspots rise, Riau fears forest fires could return 1/12/2017 7:02:00 AM.

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BCN presentará resultados de estudio cartográfico realizado en 90 muni.. 1/12/2017 4:59:00 AM.

La Compañera Vicepresidenta Rosario Murillo, anunció que el día 17 de enero el Banco Central de Nicaragua presentará los resultados de un estudio cartográfico que se realizó en 90 municipios del país. Rosario explicó que el estudio contiene
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Scientists just discovered a massive pool of carbon in central Africa .. 1/11/2017 7:03:00 PM.

A new study has just revealed a massive peat-filled wetland in Africa’s central Congo Basin — and scientists say the carbon stored there may be equivalent to 20 years worth of U.S. fossil fuel emissions. The area is now believed to be the l
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Indonesia set to restore 2 mln hectares of peatland by 2020 1/11/2017 2:23:00 PM.

JAKARTA, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The Indonesian government is set to restore around 2 million hectares of peatland across the country by 2020 to address forest fire threat and preserve eco-system. Indonesian President Joko Widodo made the annou
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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),