M 4.7 in Vanuatu on 28 Jun 2016 13:29 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 1088993
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 38.82 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.4734 , 166.94
Event Date: 28 Jun 2016 13:29 UTC
29 Jun 2016 00:29 Local
Exposed Population:
About 22475 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Jun 2016 14:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200067hj 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

Articles: 237 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

5.5 magnitude earthquake in VanuatuSat, 02 Jul 2016 09:35:00 +0200.

Update: 7:19PM A MODERATE size earthquake with deep depth source location occurred in the Vanuatu region this evening. The 5.5 magnitude earthquake occurred at a depth of 124 kilometres at 5:35pm. It occurred 120km south from Lenakel in Van
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هذا ما سيحدث اذا قفز سكان الأرض جميعا في آن واحد!!Sat, 02 Jul 2016 09:27:00 +0200.

كشف عالم الفيزياء الفلكية في جامعة أوهايو الأمريكية وزميله عالم الفيزياء مارك بوسلو في مختبر ساندا القومي افتراض ما سيحدث لو قفز سكان الأرض جميعا في وقت واحد. ونشرت مجلة " Bussiness" استنتاجات خرج بها العالمان جراء تحليل هذا الافتراض الجري
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Philippines: Resilient families deemed essential in disaster preparedn ... Sat, 02 Jul 2016 03:54:00 +0200.

June 29, 2016 Joanna Diaz Sabado. SAN FERNANDO CITY, June 29 (PIA) – “When a typhoon is already here, we can only act very minimally, let us exert more of our efforts in disaster prevention and preparedness so that after the typhoon, we can
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ماذا سيحدث لو قفز سكان الأرض جميعاً في وقت واحد؟Sat, 02 Jul 2016 02:12:00 +0200.

افتراض جريء وإجابة غير متوقعة.. الرياض - mbc.net) كشف عالم الفيزياء الفلكية في جامعة أوهايو الأمريكية وزميله عالم الفيزياء مارك بوسلو في مختبر ساندا القومي افتراض ما سيحدث لو قفز سكان الأرض جميعاً في وقت واحد. ونشرت مجلة "Bussiness" استنتاج
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),