M 5.5 in Vanuatu on 04 Jul 2018 16:37 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 1148873
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 118.53 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.8995 , 167.4193
Event Date: 04 Jul 2018 16:37 UTC
05 Jul 2018 03:37 Local
Exposed Population: About 69000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Jul 2018 16:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000fwxz Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 23 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Pacific regionWed, 27 Jun 2018 05:01:00 +0200.

The Pacific Region is frequently hit by natural disasters ranging from cyclones, floods, droughts to earthquakes. Pacific island countries including Papua New Guinea, Fiji Islands, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands and Vanuatu, rank among the h
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Se va restableciendo la paz, se van mejorando condiciones para la vidaSat, 23 Jun 2018 05:28:00 +0200.

La Vicepresidenta de Nicaragua, compañera Rosario Murillo en su mensaje del medio día de este viernes 22 de junio destacó que donde se restablece la tranquilidad, donde se va restableciendo la paz , donde se van procurando condiciones para
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Declaraciones de la Compañera Rosario Murillo, Vicepresidenta de Nicar ... Sat, 23 Jun 2018 05:10:00 +0200.

, sobre todo Mensajes de Fé : “Conocer a Dios és confiar en Él”, nos dice un Compañero. Otro Compañero nos dice : “Dios siempre és fiel”. También nos envían Filipenses 4, que dice : … El Señor está cerca. Por nada estéis afanosos, sean noto
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Rosario en Multinoticias (22 de Junio del 2018)Sat, 23 Jun 2018 04:39:00 +0200.

Declaraciones de Rosario Murillo, Vicepresidenta de Nicaragua, en Edición del Mediodía de Multinoticias Canal 4 22 de Junio del 2018. Buenas tardes, Compañera; buenas tardes, queridas Familias de esta nuestra Nicaragua, Nicaragua de Tod@s,
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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),