M 4.9 in New Caledonia on 31 Oct 2017 19:46 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 1125167
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 5.72 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.5699 , 168.8372
Event Date: 31 Oct 2017 19:46 UTC
01 Nov 2017 06:46 Local
Exposed Population:
About 700 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Oct 2017 20:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000az9i Scaled population (vector) 1.85  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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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), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),