M 6.9 in Indonesia on 05 Aug 2018 11:46 UTC

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1152815
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.9M
Glide number: EQ-2018-000127-IDN
Depth: 31 Km
Lat/Lon: -8.2871 , 116.4515
Event Date: 05 Aug 2018 11:46 UTC
05 Aug 2018 19:46 Local
Exposed Population: 970000 people in MMI
3800000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Aug 2018 13:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.8 (Indonesia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 2.9 0 2.9
us1000g3ub Scaled population (vector) 6.03 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -1.73 Max wave realtime 0.1m  
  C2 shakemap 0.79      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.96      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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: EMSR (2), UNOSAT (1), EC-JRC (88), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),