M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 03 Feb 2017 05:13 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 1104686
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.3003 , 166.7338
Event Date: 03 Feb 2017 05:13 UTC
03 Feb 2017 16:13 Local
Exposed Population:
About 16000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Feb 2017 06:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008hap Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 421 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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"أتلانتيس" تلك المدينة الأسطورية التي لحق بها الدمار بين ليلة وضحاها.. ظلت لقرون سراً غامضاً.. هل كانت حقيقية أم أنها أسطورة خيالية؟ الآن.. نحن على وشك حل اللغز والتوصل إلى سر الموقع الحقيقي للمدينة الأسطورية، والذي استولى على خيالنا منذ آل
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Ministry says Japan must act responsibly over Fukushima radiationTue, 07 Feb 2017 03:17:00 +0100.

China hopes the Japanese government will act in a responsible manner and take concrete measures to tackle excessive radiation at the Fukushima nuclear plant, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said on Monday. After analyzing images taken by
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Dos fenómenos ocurren alrededor de Leandro. Uno es natural, el tsunami que castigó la playa que reúne sus mejores recuerdos de la infancia. El otro es personal: lo que pareció ser una gran historia de amor con Julia terminó siendo un verdad
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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),