M 4.7 in Vanuatu on 20 Sep 2016 21:31 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 1094333
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.8437 , 172.6324
Event Date: 20 Sep 2016 21:31 UTC
21 Sep 2016 09:31 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Sep 2016 21:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006r83 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: 471 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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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),