M 5.2 in Vanuatu on 16 Sep 2018 15:00 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 1156799
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 23.74 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.582 , 166.8474
Event Date: 16 Sep 2018 15:00 UTC
17 Sep 2018 02:00 Local
Exposed Population:
About 25000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Sep 2018 15:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000hfhb Scaled population (vector) 4.13  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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WA is smack-bang in the middle of a tectonic plate, so why does it get ... Mon, 17 Sep 2018 08:15:00 +0200.

The largest was the 6.5-magnitude quake at Meckering in 1968 that injured 20 and left hundreds of families homeless. But Western Australia is in the middle of a tectonic plate, so how do earthquakes even happen here in the first place? No f
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Why does WA get the country's largest tremors?Mon, 17 Sep 2018 07:30:00 +0200.

on Sunday afternoon. West Australian town of Walpole, about 430 kilometres south-east of Perth, with tremors felt as far away as Perth and Albany No serious damage was reported, but the quake was considered "uncommonly large". Some of the l
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Islas SalomónSun, 09 Sep 2018 23:03:00 +0200.

El USGS situó el hipocentro a 53 kilómetros de profundidad bajo el lecho marino, a 128 kilómetros al suroeste de Chirovanga, y a 523 al sudeste de Honiara. Un nuevo terremoto de 6,9 grados de magnitud se ha producido en las Islas Salomón,
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Fuertes sismos sacuden a los países del ‘Anillo de Fuego del Pacífico' ... Thu, 06 Sep 2018 21:23:00 +0200.

Desde el pasado 6 de agosto, el 'Anillo de Fuego del Pacífico', el área geográfica del planeta que abarca unos 40.000 kilómetros entre el este de América y el oeste de Asia, ha tenido una fuerte actividad sísmica, con sismos superiores a 6
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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),