M 5 in Vanuatu on 21 Oct 2017 16:35 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 1124419
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 116.29 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.6724 , 167.8719
Event Date: 21 Oct 2017 16:35 UTC
22 Oct 2017 03:35 Local
Exposed Population:
100000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Oct 2017 16:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000av8z Scaled population (vector) 4.87  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 317 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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41 municipios del Cauca participan del 6° Simulacro Nacional de Respue ... Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:13:00 +0200.

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Canary islands face volcano eruption and tsunami warningWed, 25 Oct 2017 14:30:00 +0200.

After a year that has seen concern about potential voicano eruptions in Iceland, Italy and Bali, volcanologists on the Canary Islands have been asked to work out whether the island of La Palma is facing an imminent eruption. The experts hav
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Il legno autoportante per ricostruire AccumoliWed, 25 Oct 2017 13:24:00 +0200.

Ad un anno dalla seconda scossa sismica che ha investito il centro Italia (26 ottobre 2016), dopo il Villaggio del Cibo di Amatrice, un altro spazio di riaggregazione sta prendendo forma presso Accumoli, comune simbolo, suo malgrado, insiem
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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),