M 4.5 Off-shore on 21 Oct 2016 18:20 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 1096163
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10.89 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.1254 , 179.0864
Event Date: 21 Oct 2016 18:20 UTC
22 Oct 2016 06:20 Local
Exposed Population:
About 300 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Oct 2016 15:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20007fz6 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: 737 | About casualties: 32 | Last hour: 0

Storm alertsTue, 25 Oct 2016 18:08:00 +0200.

LAWMAKERS this week reported that the two large telecommunications companies, PLDT and Globe, failed to send out storm alerts to mobile phone users as required by law during the last typhoon. Bayan Muna party-list Rep. Carlo Isagani Zarate
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OMS envía un millón de vacunas contra el cólera para contener contagio ... Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:40:00 +0200.

El pasado 4 de octubre el huracán Matthew arrasó Haití, donde dejó 546 muertos y 175.000 desplazados, y exacerbó la epidemia de cólera que asuela la nación desde hace más de un lustro. La experiencia de otras catástrofes hizo temer una expl
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Llega a Haití un millón de vacunas contra el cóleraTue, 25 Oct 2016 17:07:00 +0200.

Ginebra.- Tres semanas después del paso del huracán Matthew por Haití, la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) ha enviado a la isla un millón de vacunas contra el cólera para intentar contener la expansión de la enfermedad en el país. El
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Washington state so 'unprepared' for megaquake that survivors could be ... Tue, 25 Oct 2016 17:02:00 +0200.

Scientists have long believed that Washington will be hit hard if the Cascadia Fault - which stretches, mostly off the shore, from Canada to California - were to suddenly break. Cascadia, which last had a megaquake in 1700 and so is about d
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),