M 5.6 in Vanuatu on 07 Mar 2017 23:38 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 1107268
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 12.51 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.038 , 168.0581
Event Date: 07 Mar 2017 23:38 UTC
08 Mar 2017 10:38 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VI
About 32000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Mar 2017 00:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100087kn Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 325 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Japanese school children who survived Fukushima meltdown are being sub ... Fri, 10 Mar 2017 15:03:00 +0100.

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Зону отчуждения в районе Фукусимы облюбовали дикие кабаны После аварии ... Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:37:00 +0100.

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),