M 5.1 in New Caledonia on 21 Nov 2017 14:23 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 1127046
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.2635 , 168.6468
Event Date: 21 Nov 2017 14:23 UTC
22 Nov 2017 01:23 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Nov 2017 15:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bsat Scaled population (vector) 2.82  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),