M 4.8 in Vanuatu on 12 Aug 2016 08:03 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 1091706
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.7464 , 173.3572
Event Date: 12 Aug 2016 08:03 UTC
12 Aug 2016 20:03 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Aug 2016 08:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006d8l Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 403 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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Japon : Un « petit » séisme se produit au large de FukushimaTue, 16 Aug 2016 05:24:00 +0200.

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Se registra un sismo de magnitud 5,3 en JapónTue, 16 Aug 2016 05:22:00 +0200.

Este 15 de agosto se ha producido un terremoto de magnitud 5,3 cerca de las costas de Japón, informa el Servicio Geológico de EE.UU. (USGS, por sus siglas en inglés). El epicentro del sismo se situó a 66 kilómetros al este de la localidad
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Conductores no ceden paso a Bomberos durante simulacro de sismo (Video ... Tue, 16 Aug 2016 02:50:00 +0200.

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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: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),