M 4.5 in Vanuatu on 07 May 2017 09:52 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 1112308
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 76.24 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.0976 , 171.6364
Event Date: 07 May 2017 09:52 UTC
07 May 2017 20:52 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 May 2017 10:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10008qa2 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 385 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Eight people were killed when an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 struck in China’s northwest Xinjiang region on Thursday, the official Xinhua news agency said, with photographs online also showing damaged buildings. The China Earthquake
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زلزال بقوة 6.8 درجة يضرب قبالة القارة القطبية الجنوبيةThu, 11 May 2017 08:28:00 +0200.

قالت هيئة المسح الجيولوجي الأميركية إن زلزالاً شدته 6.8 درجة وقع شمالي القارة القطبية الجنوبية، ولكن من غير المتوقع أن يتسبب الزلزال في حدوث أمواج مد عاتية (تسونامي). وأضافت الهيئة أن مركز الزلزال كان على بعد 98 كيلومترًا شمال شرقي جزيرة ف
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Terremoto de magnitud 6,8 se registró en el AtlánticoThu, 11 May 2017 08:12:00 +0200.

El epicentro del sismo se situó en a una distancia de 84 kilómetros al este noreste de la isla Visokoi/ Foto: Cortesía. Se ha producido un terremoto de magnitud 6,8 en el territorio británico de ultramar de las Islas Georgias del Sur y San
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Tsunami hotar börsen: ”Investerarna livrädda”Thu, 11 May 2017 08:09:00 +0200.

Som DagensPS.se skrev om häromdagen har mätinstrumenten för marknadens tro på framtida volatilitet, så kallade ”skräckindex”, rasat till de lägsta nivåerna på många år. Det amerikanska VIX-index nådde exempelvis den lägsta nivån sedan 1993.
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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),