M 5.8 in Vanuatu on 27 Nov 2018 15:41 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 1163498
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.341 , 171.3426
Event Date: 27 Nov 2018 15:41 UTC
28 Nov 2018 02:41 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Nov 2018 16:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000hx1t Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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

OCHA Annual Report 2015Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:08:00 +0100.

1OCHA UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS ANNUAL REPORT 2015 CHA UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS ANNUAL REPORT 2015 unocha.org reliefweb.int Twitter @unocha and @UnReliefChie
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"Informe de riesgo global 2018" toma de ejemplo a niños afectados en t ... Mon, 19 Nov 2018 19:46:00 +0100.

En abril de 2016, el terremoto de magnitud de 7,8 que sacudió el suelo del noroeste de Ecuador dejó un saldo de más de 660 fallecidos y más de 80.000 damnificados. Además, 560 escuelas quedaron parcial o completamente destruidas. Especialme
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WorldRiskReport: Children suffer most from war and disasterMon, 19 Nov 2018 11:59:00 +0100.

In April 2016, northwestern Ecuador was hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake . More than 660 people died, and 80,000 lost their homes and livelihoods. About 560 schools were partially or totally destroyed. Children were particularly affected.
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WorldRiskReport: Children suffer most from war and disasterMon, 19 Nov 2018 11:56:00 +0100.

In April 2016, northwestern Ecuador was hit by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake . More than 660 people died, and 80,000 lost their homes and livelihoods. About 560 schools were partially or totally destroyed. Children were particularly affected.
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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),