M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 06 Apr 2016 09:04 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 1083823
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.0303 , 166.6298
Event Date: 06 Apr 2016 09:04 UTC
06 Apr 2016 20:04 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5611 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Apr 2016 09:27 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 518 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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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),