M 5.9 in New Caledonia on 16 Nov 2017 07:02 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 1126570
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.5209 , 168.4817
Event Date: 16 Nov 2017 07:02 UTC
16 Nov 2017 18:02 Local
Exposed Population: About 5000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Nov 2017 07:22 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bphs Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 431 | About casualties: 27 | Last hour: 0

Se registra fuerte sismo de 6,9 en Nueva CaledoniaSun, 19 Nov 2017 19:25:00 +0100.

Hasta el momento las autoridades locales no han informado si hay víctimas, daños o riesgo de tsunami. Un Sismo de magnitud 6,9 sacudió este domingo las Islas de la Lealtad, un archipiélago del territorio francés de Nueva Caledonia, en el P
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Strong earthquake strikes east-northeast of Tadine, New Caledonia -USG ... Sun, 19 Nov 2017 19:23:00 +0100.

Nov 19 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck in the Pacific Ocean 42 miles (67 km) east-northeast of Tadine in New Caledonia's Loyalty Islands, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Sunday. The quake, whose depth was 12.8 miles, oc
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Sufre Nueva Caledonia: terremoto de 6.6 sacudió las Islas de la Lealta ... Sun, 19 Nov 2017 19:20:00 +0100.

Más de 10 movimientos se han sentido en dichas zona las últimas semanas. Un terremoto de 6,6 sacudió las Islas de la Lealtad, un archipiélago del territorio francés de Nueva Caledonia. Pese a su gran magnitud, el Servicio de Alertas por Ts
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Strong earthquakes hit the Pacific off New CaledoniaSun, 19 Nov 2017 19:11:00 +0100.

The first one happened at about 8:25 p.m. local time on Sunday when a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck 60 kilometers (37 miles) east of Maré Island in the Loyalty Islands, or 245 kilometers (152 miles) northeast of the capital Noumea on the
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), WMO (1), INFORM (2),