M 5.2 in New Caledonia on 20 Jun 2016 12:49 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 1088499
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.6751 , 168.5473
Event Date: 20 Jun 2016 12:49 UTC
20 Jun 2016 23:49 Local
Exposed Population:
About 141 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jun 2016 13:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200065hm Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

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Dozens of homes burned in new California wildfireFri, 24 Jun 2016 12:41:00 +0200.

(Reuters) - Hundreds of firefighters were headed to the communities around Isabella Lake in central California on Friday to battle a fast-growing wildfire that has destroyed 80 homes and threatens over 1,000 more, officials said. The so-cal
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Dozens of homes burned in new California wildfireFri, 24 Jun 2016 12:40:00 +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),