M 4.7 in Vanuatu on 02 Oct 2016 22:35 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 1095113
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 26.61 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.5728 , 169.0584
Event Date: 02 Oct 2016 22:35 UTC
03 Oct 2016 09:35 Local
Exposed Population:
About 765 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Oct 2016 22:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006ukm 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

Articles: 242 | About casualties: 2 | 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),