M 5.2 in Vanuatu on 04 Jun 2016 21:59 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 1087578
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.2652 , 168.2025
Event Date: 04 Jun 2016 21:59 UTC
05 Jun 2016 08:59 Local
Exposed Population:
About 51394 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Jun 2016 22:21 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000623b 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: 434 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

الارصاد تختبر الإنذار بظاهرة المد البحري “تسونامي”Wed, 08 Jun 2016 21:38:00 +0200.

الثورة نت/ اختبرت الارصاد اليمنية ممثلة في الإدارة العامة للأرصاد البحرية في قطاع الأرصاد بالهيئة العامة للطيران المدني والارصاد، اليوم، تنفيذ الإنذار بظاهرة المد البحري (تسونامي). و تم تلقي الإنذار من مجموعة التنسيق الدولية الحكومية لنظام
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Klimakatastrophe in DeutschlandWed, 08 Jun 2016 21:13:00 +0200.

08.06.2016 Klimakatastrophe in Deutschland Wir Menschen sind schon seltsame Verdrängungskünstler: Ob Simbach in Niederbayern, Polling in Oberbayern oder Hamminkeln am Niederrhein: Überall ist die Rede vom Jahrhundertwasser“, von einmalig“,
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Attend these community drills to prepare for chaos after a megaquakeWed, 08 Jun 2016 21:00:00 +0200.

The biggest earthquake and tsunami drill in Northwest history is under way this week — and you can be part of it. On Saturday, a dozen of Seattle’s will pick up where FEMA’s four-day Cascadia Rising exercise ends. While the exercise itself
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Kim Cattrall über Schlafstörungen: "Ich war im Abgrund"Wed, 08 Jun 2016 19:42:00 +0200.

Wie ein Tsunami habe Schlaflosigkeit sie heimgesucht, sagt Schauspielerin Kim Cattrall in einem Interview. Wegen der nächtlichen Störungen musste die 59-Jährige ein Theater-Engagement abbrechen. "Ein Gorilla, der auf meiner Brust sitzt", s
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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.
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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),