M 6 in Vanuatu on 20 Jul 2016 15:13 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 1090327
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 164.13 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.9 , 169.0293
Event Date: 20 Jul 2016 15:13 UTC
21 Jul 2016 02:13 Local
Exposed Population:
About 32230 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jul 2016 15:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us20006g6l 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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Freinberg – Ein 45-jähriger Mann aus Passau ist in Oberösterreich von einer Flutwelle mitgerissen worden und ertrunken. Der Mann habe in der Nacht zum Sonntag in Freinberg nach dem Haibach sehen wollen, der über die Ufer getreten war. Da ge
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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),