M 4.6 in Vanuatu on 18 Aug 2016 16:24 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 1092093
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.9278 , 173.2315
Event Date: 18 Aug 2016 16:24 UTC
19 Aug 2016 04:24 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Aug 2016 17:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006es2 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

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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),