M 4.8 in New Caledonia on 18 Nov 2017 01:31 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 1126733
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 17.28 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.6558 , 168.7648
Event Date: 18 Nov 2017 01:31 UTC
18 Nov 2017 12:31 Local
Exposed Population:
About 4000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Nov 2017 02:20 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bqul Scaled population (vector) 2.66  
  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

Articles: 1106 | About casualties: 55 | Last hour: 0

Haitians relieved to stay in US for now, upset status to endWed, 22 Nov 2017 01:18:00 +0100.

MIAMI (AP) — Yolnick Jeune couldn't sleep for days, anxious over the fate of a program that has staved off the deportations of both herself and tens of thousands of other Haitians in the U.S. Then President Trump's administration this week
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Haití, entre nervios y optimismo con la nueva política migratoria de E ... Wed, 22 Nov 2017 01:01:00 +0100.

La sociedad haitiana está recibiendo con nerviosismo las consecuencias del fin del estatus migratorio especial otorgado por Washington a casi 59.000 ciudadanos de ese país, aunque algunos aceptan este cambio de política con alivio y lo ven
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Haitians relieved to stay in US for now, upset status to endWed, 22 Nov 2017 00:26:00 +0100.

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press. MIAMI (AP) - Yolnick Jeune couldn't sleep for days, anxious over the fate of a program that has staved off the deportations of both herself and tens of thousands of other Haitians in the U.S. Then Pr
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Haitians relieved to stay in US for now, upset status to endWed, 22 Nov 2017 00:12:00 +0100.

By ADRIANA GOMEZ LICON Associated Press. MIAMI (AP) - Yolnick Jeune couldn't sleep for days, anxious over the fate of a program that has staved off the deportations of both herself and tens of thousands of other Haitians in the U.S. Then Pr
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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),