M 4.7 in Vanuatu on 20 Sep 2017 15:32 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 1121958
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 41.55 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.9385 , 167.0092
Event Date: 20 Sep 2017 15:32 UTC
21 Sep 2017 02:32 Local
Exposed Population:
About 55000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Sep 2017 21:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000arwt Scaled population (vector) 4.84  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 626 | About casualties: 38 | Last hour: 0

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Magnitude 5.9 quake strikes off Mexican west coastSun, 24 Sep 2017 15:01:00 +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.
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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),