M 4.7 in New Caledonia on 17 Jun 2016 14:39 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 1088347
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.6163 , 168.5269
Event Date: 17 Jun 2016 14:39 UTC
18 Jun 2016 01:39 Local
Exposed Population:
About 112 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jun 2016 14:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006520 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: 1209 | About casualties: 41 | Last hour: 0

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EFE Un sismo de 6 grados de magnitud en la escala abierta de Richter sacudió las aguas al suroeste de la isla de Tanna, en el sur del archipiélago de Vanuatu , en el Pacífico Sur, sin que se haya declarado alerta de tsunami o informado de d
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Japan utility: Delay in declaring 'meltdown' was cover-upTue, 21 Jun 2016 14:27:00 +0200.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. President Naomi Hirose's apology followed the revelation last week that an investigation had found Hirose's predecessor instructed officials during the 2011 disaster to avoid using the word "meltdown." TEPCO instea
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The tension building along an active fault line near Istanbul’s Prince ... Tue, 21 Jun 2016 14:26:00 +0200.

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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),