M 5.2 in Vanuatu on 30 Jul 2016 00:11 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 1090915
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 141.88 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.8429 , 169.9264
Event Date: 30 Jul 2016 00:11 UTC
30 Jul 2016 11:11 Local
Exposed Population:
About 765 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Jul 2016 00:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us100068n4 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 395 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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Salmon farming centre. (Photo: K. Falch) Aquaculture harvests fall 15 pc in first semester. Wednesday, August 03, 2016, 01:30 (GMT + 9) In the first half of this year aquaculture harvests totalled 508,000 tonnes, 15 per cent less than what
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False Alarm for Massive EarthquakeTue, 02 Aug 2016 23:11:00 +0200.

Story Highlights. Thousands in Japan were startled when they received an app notification saying a 9.1 magnitude earthquake hit Tokyo Monday evening. Officials say lightning striking a seismometer may have caused the false alert. A Japanes
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Five years after the tsunami that killed tens of thousands ...Tue, 02 Aug 2016 22:25:00 +0200.

Five years after the tsunami that killed tens of thousands in Japan, a husband still searches the sea for his wife, joined by a father hoping to find his daughter 02.08.16 | 22:10 Uhr | 1 mal gelesen | So gefunden auf nytimes.com Five years
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India, alluvioni da nord a sud: 150 morti e strage di rinocerontiTue, 02 Aug 2016 21:08:00 +0200.

(ap) Il monsone di quest'anno è stato più violento di quanto ci si aspettasse. Si è abbattuto sull'India da nord a sud con violentissime piogge che in tre settimane hanno causato straripamenti di fiumi e inondazioni, provocando almeno 150 m
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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),