M 5.6 in Vanuatu on 11 Dec 2017 17:29 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 1128460
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 187.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.3509 , 167.4548
Event Date: 11 Dec 2017 17:29 UTC
12 Dec 2017 04:29 Local
Exposed Population: About 17000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Dec 2017 18:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000c2vg Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),