M 4.6 in Vanuatu on 15 Oct 2017 19:03 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 1123936
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.963 , 171.4646
Event Date: 15 Oct 2017 19:03 UTC
16 Oct 2017 06:03 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Oct 2017 20:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000ask0 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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Sitharaman celebrates Diwali with troopsThu, 19 Oct 2017 18:14:00 +0200.

The defence minister also paid homage to the Indian Air Force personnel and their families who were killed during the Tsunami in the Car Nicobar islands. Defence Minister Nirmala celebrated Diwali with military personnel at the strategical
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Nirmala Sitharaman celebrates Diwali with troopsThu, 19 Oct 2017 16:34:00 +0200.

Digg; Google Bookmarks; StumbleUpon; Reddit; Newsvine; Live Bookmarks; Technorati; Yahoo Bookmarks; Blogmarks; Del.icio.us; ApnaCircle; Google Plus; Pinterest. The defence minister also paid homage to the Indian Air Force personnel and the
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Nirmala Sitharaman celebrates Diwali with troops at Andaman & NicobarThu, 19 Oct 2017 16:01:00 +0200.

The defence minister also paid homage to the Indian Air Force personnel and their families who were killed during the tsunami in 2004. Updated: Oct 19, 2017 18:57 IST Press Trust of India, Port Blair. india Defence Minister Nirmala Sithara
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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),