M 4.7 in Vanuatu on 23 May 2016 21:40 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 1086853
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 133.72 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.9574 , 167.5487
Event Date: 23 May 2016 21:40 UTC
24 May 2016 08:40 Local
Exposed Population:
About 59410 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 May 2016 22:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
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: 537 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Remarks by President Obama to U.S. and Japanese Forces -- Iwakuni, Jap ... Fri, 27 May 2016 19:25:00 +0200.

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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),