M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 08 Feb 2016 12:05 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 1080227
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 48.81 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.2461 , 168.5603
Event Date: 08 Feb 2016 12:05 UTC
08 Feb 2016 23:05 Local
Exposed Population:
About 28148 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Feb 2016 12:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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: 484 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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La secousse a été confirmée par l'USGS dans la région de Java. L'agence américaine de sismologie a situé l'épicentre entre deux îles à 3 km au sud-est d'Andekantor en Indonésie. Aucune alerte tsunami n'a été pour l'heure déclenchée. Connec
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Powerful 6.5 earthquake strikes Indonesia: USGSFri, 12 Feb 2016 11:58:00 +0100.

Jakarta. A powerful 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia late Friday, but no tsunami warning was immediately issued, US seismologists said, AFP reported. The earthquake hit at 5:02 pm local time (1002 GMT Friday), the US Geolog
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Un séisme de magnitude 6,6 en IndonésieFri, 12 Feb 2016 11:58:00 +0100.

La secousse a été confirmée par l'USGS dans la région de Java. L'agence américaine de sismologie a situé l'épicentre entre deux îles à 3 km au sud-est d'Andekantor en Indonésie. Aucune alerte tsunami n'a été pour l'heure déclenchée.
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Su nombre es zona de subducción Cascadia. Su descomunal tamaño y su potencial poder asombra a los expertos en terremotos, quienes dicen que podría causar el peor desastre natural en la historia de Norteamérica. Se encuentra en el fondo del
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),