M 4.8 in Vanuatu on 25 Apr 2017 11:36 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 1111166
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 117.85 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.9027 , 167.3783
Event Date: 25 Apr 2017 11:36 UTC
25 Apr 2017 22:36 Local
Exposed Population:
About 68000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Apr 2017 12:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10008kma 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)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),