M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 24 Jul 2016 14:00 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 1090549
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.1679 , 166.5674
Event Date: 24 Jul 2016 14:00 UTC
25 Jul 2016 01:00 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5176 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Jul 2016 15:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006h9f Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 433 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),