M 4.6 in Vanuatu on 12 Dec 2016 13:11 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 1100726
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 95.04 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.8506 , 170.7252
Event Date: 12 Dec 2016 13:11 UTC
13 Dec 2016 00:11 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Dec 2016 17:07 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us2000806r 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: 589 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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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.
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),