M 5 in New Caledonia on 24 Aug 2016 14:18 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 1092532
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.0454 , 168.9981
Event Date: 24 Aug 2016 14:18 UTC
25 Aug 2016 01:18 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Aug 2016 15:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006gfa 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: 1721 | About casualties: 220 | Last hour: 0

El Papa visitará la zona devastada por el terremotoSun, 28 Aug 2016 13:55:00 +0200.

El Litoral. EFE. El papa Francisco mostró este domingo de nuevo su solidaridad con las víctimas del terremoto del miércoles en el centro de Italia y dijo después del tradicional rezo del Ángelus que "apenas sea posible" se trasladará a la z
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El Papa anuncia que visitará las zonas afectadas por el terremoto en I ... Sun, 28 Aug 2016 13:44:00 +0200.

El papa Francisco mostró este domingo de nuevo su solidaridad con las víctimas del terremoto del miércoles en el centro de Italia y dijo después del tradicional rezo del Ángelus que “ apenas sea posible ” se trasladará a la zona. “También y
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Survival of quake victims depends on many factorsSun, 28 Aug 2016 13:33:00 +0200.

NEW YORK (AP) — How long can people survive in the rubble of an earthquake? A week or more under the best circumstances, some experts say. That means the trapped victims aren’t seriously injured, they have air to breathe and the weather isn
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Rescate de víctimas continúa tras nueva noche de réplicasSun, 28 Aug 2016 13:13:00 +0200.

Rescate de víctimas continúa en Italia tras una noche de nuevas réplicas En las zonas Ascoli Piceno, L'Aquila y Perugia se detectaron numerosas réplicas, la mayoría de ellas con una magnitud de entre 2 y 3,4 Richter, informó el Instituto Na
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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),