M 5.9 in Vanuatu on 16 Jan 2017 20:47 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 1103378
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -13.4817 , 166.4962
Event Date: 16 Jan 2017 20:47 UTC
17 Jan 2017 07:47 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI V
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jan 2017 21:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007tjy Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),