M 5.1 in New Caledonia on 18 Dec 2017 16:25 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 1129006
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 9.84 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.8367 , 168.9933
Event Date: 18 Dec 2017 16:25 UTC
19 Dec 2017 03:25 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2017 19:42 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000c5mx Scaled population (vector) -1  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 380 | About casualties: 41 | Last hour: 0

A year of new discoveries - NIWATue, 19 Dec 2017 00:38:00 +0100.

It’s been a year of discovery for NIWA scientists who now know more than they did 12 months ago - their top five discoveries for the year range from the bottom of the ocean to the top of the atmosphere. Kaikoura canyon post earthquake. In J
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Nicaragua realizará simulacro de desastres pensando en terremoto de 19 ... Tue, 19 Dec 2017 00:13:00 +0100.

Nicaragua realizará simulacro de desastres pensando en terremoto de 1972. Nota Para enviar este contenido a varios correos debes separar las direcciones email con una coma y espacio. Nuestro sistema permite un máximo de cinco destinatarios
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Indonesia: West Java residents return to their homes after deadly trem ... Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:57:00 +0100.

Jakarta | Sat, December 16, 2017 | 05:12 pm. Residents of Tasikmalaya in West Java have returned to their homes to go about their daily activities, hours after leaving in a hurry in the middle of the night. They had fled following a tsunami
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Prévoir la puissance des tsunamisMon, 18 Dec 2017 19:37:00 +0100.

Si cette nouvelle méthode avait été mise au point avant le 11 mars 2011, peut-être la puissance du tsunami consécutif au tremblement de terre du Tohoku, qui engendra la catastrophe nucléaire de Fukushima et fit 20 000 morts, aurait-elle pu
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),