M 4.8 in Vanuatu on 19 Jun 2016 17:30 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 1088443
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.2524 , 168.4357
Event Date: 19 Jun 2016 17:30 UTC
20 Jun 2016 04:30 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jun 2016 17:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200065el Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 329 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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Estos movimientos causarían un daño mayor en caso de que ocurra un ter ... Thu, 23 Jun 2016 16:21:00 +0200.

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No Brexit al 52%, ma inglesi in coda per cambiare le sterlineThu, 23 Jun 2016 16:20:00 +0200.

: ROMA – Sondaggi in Gran Bretagna, gli ultimi due The Guardian-Icm parallelamente giungono alla stessa conclusione sentenza: la Brexit , l’uscit della Gran Bretagna dalla Unione Europea vince oggi 52 a 48. Il 23 giugno sarà il voto vero, s
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كارثة تهدد اميركا في الأيام الـ 10 القادمة!Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:25:00 +0200.

حذر علماء الجيولوجيا في الولايات المتحدة بأن أمريكا قد تواجه زلزالا قويا قوته 9.3 في الأيام الـ10 المقبلة. ووفقا للعلماء، إذا وقعت 10 هزات ارتدادية أخرى في الولايات المتحدة، فإن تسونامي سيدمر الساحل الغربي للولايات المتحدة الأميركية. هذا وق
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),