M 4.8 in Vanuatu on 16 May 2016 03:13 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 1086369
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 40.74 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.5732 , 166.7155
Event Date: 16 May 2016 03:13 UTC
16 May 2016 14:13 Local
Exposed Population:
About 18948 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 May 2016 03:36 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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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 439 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

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Mars satellites show remains of massive tsunamis that ravaged Red Plan ... Fri, 20 May 2016 02:20:00 +0200.

in Nature Scientific Reports published , the boffins say pictures from the imaging and radar satellites orbiting Mars show the effects of two separate asteroid strikes on what was once a vast ocean in the northern hemisphere of the Red Plan
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На Марсе обнаружили следы двух гигантских цунамиFri, 20 May 2016 02:12:00 +0200.

Ученые обнаружили следы двух "мега-цунами", которые произошли на Марсе вследствие падения на планету метеоров. Об этом сообщает со ссылкой на Scientiic Reports. N+1 Согласно существующим гипотезам, на поверхности Марса мог существовать холо
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Expert to tell story of skeletons unearthed in £30m Aberdeen gallery r ... Fri, 20 May 2016 01:30:00 +0200.

The reconstruction of 750-year-old skeletons by a global forensic anthropologist could tell story of medieval Aberdeen. Aberdeen City Council is in talks with a leading forensic anthropologist to turn the discovery of medieval skeletons int
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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),