M 4.8 in Vanuatu on 09 Dec 2017 01:15 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 1128299
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 133.34 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.716 , 167.718
Event Date: 09 Dec 2017 01:15 UTC
09 Dec 2017 12:15 Local
Exposed Population:
110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Dec 2017 01:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000c29n Scaled population (vector) 4.82  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
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Latest media headlines

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Землетрясения произошли в Непале и в Тихом океанеSat, 09 Dec 2017 07:30:00 +0100.

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Un cutremur cu magnitudinea de 6,2 grade pe Richter s-a produs vineri în insulele Kermadec, un arhipelag neo-zeelandez din Pacific, fără ca autoritățile să fi informat despre existența de victime sau pagube și fără să fie emisă alertă de ts
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50 years in 11 seconds: Quake displaced Turkish port by 26cmSat, 09 Dec 2017 04:28:00 +0100.

An earthquake which killed two people on the Greek island of Kos and triggered a mini tsunami, also shifted land around the Turkish city of Bodrum by about 26cm, seismologists have found. On July 20, a quake measuring 6.6 on the Richter Sc
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),