M 6.8 in Indonesia on 29 May 2017 14:35 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1114051
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.8M
Glide number: EQ-2017-000059-IDN
Depth: 9.14 Km
Lat/Lon: -1.2818 , 120.4515
Event Date: 29 May 2017 14:35 UTC
29 May 2017 22:35 Local
Exposed Population: About 34000 people in MMI
1180000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 May 2017 16:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 1.3 0.1 1.3
us10008w1z Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake 1 Max wave realtime 0.15m  
  C2 earthquake 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),