M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 19 May 2016 19:08 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 1086568
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 31.83 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.3406 , 166.6673
Event Date: 19 May 2016 19:08 UTC
20 May 2016 06:08 Local
Exposed Population:
About 11200 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 May 2016 21:42 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

Articles: 909 | About casualties: 28 | Last hour: 0

Riset Kebencanaan Ditingkatkan untuk Kurangi Risiko Bencana IKATAN Ahl ... Mon, 23 May 2016 18:51:00 +0200.

IKATAN Ahli Bencana Indonesia (IABI) dan Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB) menyelenggarakan Pertemuan Ilmiah Tahunan (PIT) ke-3 pada 23–24 Mei 2016 di Bandung, Jawa Barat. PIT ke-3 yang berlangsung di Aula Barat, Aula Timur dan C
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Keluarga Bawa Pulang Kerangka Anggota Brimob Korban Tsunami ke NTTMon, 23 May 2016 18:44:00 +0200.

MEULABOH, KOMPAS.com - setelah mendapat kabar kerangka jenazah adiknya Baraka Iswantallo ditemukan oleh warga Blang Dalam, Kecamatan Darul Hikmah, Kabupaten Aceh Jaya, di areal persawahaan, Satriawan Tallo (38), kakak kandung anggota Brimob
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How this huge red ball could save your lifeMon, 23 May 2016 17:35:00 +0200.

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From a prototype device which can detect gluten in food to ...Mon, 23 May 2016 16:41:00 +0200.

Mitteilung von reuters.com: COLOMBO (Reuters) - The cost of Sri Lanka's landslides and floods will be between $1 5 billion and $2 billion at the minimum, the government said on Monday, as the Indian Ocean island struggles to recover from it
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),