M 5.8 in Vanuatu on 30 Apr 2018 18:24 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 1141663
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 266 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.9507 , 168.3849
Event Date: 30 Apr 2018 18:24 UTC
01 May 2018 05:24 Local
Exposed Population: About 68000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Apr 2018 23:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000duuy Scaled population (vector) -8  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 7 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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26 de abril de 2018, 16:30 Ginebra, Suiza, 26 abr (PL) La Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) abogó hoy mejorar los vínculos entre políticas y prácticas del sector y el enfrentamiento a las catástrofes naturales, cuya frecuencia y magni
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Myanmar: Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot ( ... Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:38:00 +0200.

MYANMAR. Armed conflict between the Myanmar Military and the Kachin Independence Army since 7 April has displaced up to 2,000 people in Tanai Township, Kachin State from Awng Lawt, Sut Ring Yang and Sut Ra villages. On 22 April, the Myanmar
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Feed aggregatorSat, 14 Apr 2018 04:48:00 +0200.

A first visit by the Myanmar Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, Win Myat Aye, to Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Cox's Bazar took place on 11 April. The purpose of the visit was to meet with Rohingya refugees and speed up the
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Tsunamis could cause beach tourism to lose hundreds of millions of dol ... Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:21:00 +0200.

Andreas Schaefer, an engineering geophysicist at the Geophysical Institute at KIT, presented the team's findings showing that the equivalent of over 250 million USD (ca. 200 million €) is lost annually to beach economies around the world. B
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),