M 4.8 in Vanuatu on 28 Mar 2017 21:06 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 1108877
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 157.18 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.9906 , 168.0041
Event Date: 28 Mar 2017 21:06 UTC
29 Mar 2017 08:06 Local
Exposed Population:
100000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Mar 2017 21:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC -1 -1
us20008vej Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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