M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 16 Jul 2016 16:43 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 1090089
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 38.53 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.9087 , 167.302
Event Date: 16 Jul 2016 16:43 UTC
17 Jul 2016 03:43 Local
Exposed Population:
About 27000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jul 2016 17:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006f7c 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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Tokyo jolted by third earthquake in four daysWed, 20 Jul 2016 11:17:00 +0200.

There was no threat of a tsunami. It was the third to shake the capital's high-rise buildings this week, after a 4.8 magnitude quake on Tuesday and a 5.0 on Sunday. Japan sits at the junction of four tectonic plates and experiences a number
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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),