M 4.5 in Vanuatu on 11 Aug 2018 09:06 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 1153319
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.8551 , 167.1009
Event Date: 11 Aug 2018 09:06 UTC
11 Aug 2018 20:06 Local
Exposed Population:
About 83000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Aug 2018 09:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000g6uu Scaled population (vector) 5.06  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 32 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

New Caledonia (France): Système d’alerte au tsunami : une première sir ... Tue, 14 Aug 2018 04:17:00 +0200.

Le gouvernement de la Nouvelle-Calédonie s’est engagé depuis 2015 dans une démarche visant à l’amélioration du réseau d’alerte existant et dispose aujourd'hui d'un parc de 61 sirènes, toutes testées mensuellement. Les îles Loyauté et la côt
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FIJI VULNERABLE TO NATURAL DISASTERSSun, 05 Aug 2018 01:57:00 +0200.

Location on the ‘Ring of Fire’ hazardous. SUVA, Fiji (Fiji Times, March 26, 2009) – Fiji is one of the island countries sitting on the Pacific Ring of Fire that makes it more vulnerable to natural disasters. Natural Disaster Management offi
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The story of Dutchsinse (Part 2)Sat, 04 Aug 2018 23:21:00 +0200.

But there is a third way, as I found out lately: By accident. You just need a way to share your opinion (I’d rather call it teaching) in a public way. You need a target person, for example a popular YouTuber, that could really be fucked off
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Las misteriosas fosas comunes de hace 5.000 años existen por un motivo ... Fri, 03 Aug 2018 06:03:00 +0200.

Los científicos han encontrado un vínculo entre fosas comunes milenarias en Escocia y el Pacífico Sur. Los científicos creen que una serie de fosas comunes prehistóricas en el Pacífico Sur y el norte de Escocia son los últimos lugares de d
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),