M 5.2 in Vanuatu on 28 Aug 2016 23:29 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 1092831
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.017 , 173.1762
Event Date: 28 Aug 2016 23:29 UTC
29 Aug 2016 11:29 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Aug 2016 23:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006uwn 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

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),