M 4.7 in Vanuatu on 22 Jul 2017 10:11 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 1117616
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.3095 , 168.5933
Event Date: 22 Jul 2017 10:11 UTC
22 Jul 2017 21:11 Local
Exposed Population:
About 32000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jul 2017 10:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20009zq3 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 386 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

هزة أرضية متوسطة في سومطرة الاندونيسيةWed, 26 Jul 2017 09:33:00 +0200.

استقبل الأخ صالح الصماد رئيس المجلس السياسي الأعلى في القصر الجمهوري بصنعاء اليوم بحضور نائب رئيس المجلس الدكتور قاسم لبوزة كل من المدير التنفيذي لبرنامج الأغذية العالمي ديفيد بيزلي، والمدير التنفيذي لمنظمة اليونيسيف انطوني ليك.. أزالت سلط
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German reinsurer Munich Re warns quake insurance could be hard to findWed, 26 Jul 2017 08:57:00 +0200.

But John Lucas, insurance manager at the Insurance Council, said New Zealand was not yet at the point where anyone needed to worry about earthquake cover disappearing. "That would be a long way up." New Zealand had a high level of insurance
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Depremi önceden hesaplayacak hendeğe onay çıktıWed, 26 Jul 2017 08:41:00 +0200.

Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Deprem Araştırma Merkezi’nin (DAUM), İzmir’de tehlikeli fayların nereden geçtiğini ve beklenen depremin zamanlamasına ilişkin tahmin yürütmesine olanak sağlayacak ‘hendek’ projesine TÜBİTAK’tan onay çıktı. 350 bin l
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هزة أرضية متوسطة في سومطرة الاندونيسيةWed, 26 Jul 2017 08:30:00 +0200.

كوالالمبور 26 تموز (بترا) - وقعت هزة أرضية متوسطة بقوة 1ر5 على مقياس ريختر جنوب غربي سومطرة الاندونيسية نحو الساعة السابعة صباح اليوم الأربعاء. وقالت إدارة الأرصاد الجوية في بيانها اليوم إن مركز الهزة يقع على بعد 225 كم جنوب غربي بينغكولو ا
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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),