M 4.7 in New Caledonia on 16 Nov 2017 15:43 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 1126624
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 18.13 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.452 , 168.438
Event Date: 16 Nov 2017 15:43 UTC
17 Nov 2017 02:43 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Nov 2017 19:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bps9 Scaled population (vector) 3.49  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 992 | About casualties: 94 | Last hour: 0

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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),