M 4.7 in Vanuatu on 14 Aug 2016 01:41 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 1091820
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.8621 , 173.0167
Event Date: 14 Aug 2016 01:41 UTC
14 Aug 2016 13:41 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Aug 2016 02:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006dns 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: 402 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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La lucha contra los sondeos sísmicos para hallar petróleo en el Medite ... Wed, 17 Aug 2016 19:33:00 +0200.

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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.
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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),