M 4.7 in Vanuatu Islands on 03 Apr 2016 16:04 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 1083643
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.386 , 166.8673
Event Date: 03 Apr 2016 16:04 UTC
04 Apr 2016 03:04 Local
Exposed Population:
About 19635 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Apr 2016 19:12 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),