M 4.8 in Vanuatu on 04 Jul 2016 14:15 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 1089342
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 33.98 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.6621 , 171.5415
Event Date: 04 Jul 2016 14:15 UTC
05 Jul 2016 01:15 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Jul 2016 15:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10005zud 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: 228 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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Emergency group switches to app covering poison gas clouds to earthqua ... Fri, 08 Jul 2016 07:00:00 +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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),