M 4.5 in Vanuatu on 29 Sep 2016 11:53 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 1094951
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 46.88 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.2987 , 168.0889
Event Date: 29 Sep 2016 11:53 UTC
29 Sep 2016 22:53 Local
Exposed Population:
About 53557 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Sep 2016 22:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006tsb 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: 177 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Greek draft budget for 2017 to detail forthcoming 'tax tsunami' in the ... Mon, 03 Oct 2016 09:11:00 +0200.

By G. Kouros. Ever-increasing taxes of all kinds are in store for some six million taxpayers in Greece, with a new round of tax hikes as of Jan. 1, 2017, the result of measures announced in relation to last spring’s utterly delayed first re
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#napierdrill social media campaign launchesMon, 03 Oct 2016 06:21:00 +0200.

If a tsunami threatened Napier 10 days from now, or 10 minutes from now, where would you go? That’s the question being posed by Napier City Council, whose new #napierdrill social media campaign is being shared today to encourage Napier resi
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Picknick am Rande der Sperrzone. Teil 2. FukushimaMon, 03 Oct 2016 05:11:00 +0200.

Ferner sprach Miura darüber, wie die Entseuchung verläuft und welche Gefahren in Fukushima künftig möglich wären: Die Situation in Fukushima-1 wird in den Medien immer seltener erwähnt, es sei denn es geht um regionale Medien. Dabei wird st
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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),