M 5.5 in New Caledonia on 05 Dec 2018 15:40 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 1164424
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.7923 , 169.2424
Event Date: 05 Dec 2018 15:40 UTC
06 Dec 2018 02:40 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Dec 2018 16:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Caledonia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000i2v1 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 407 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Brookfield residents file appeal in attempt to stop injection wellSat, 08 Dec 2018 07:05:00 +0100.

BROOKFIELD. Discussions over an appeal filed by Brookfield residents who seek to reverse the state’s authorization for a company to begin operating one of its injection wells will likely happen after the start of the new year. Linda Osterma
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Complacency kills: Caribbean gears up for tsunamisSat, 08 Dec 2018 06:48:00 +0100.

Image copyright Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Image caption Island nations like Grenada hope to be tsunami-ready by 2020. The last time a major tsunami hit the Caribbean region was in 1946, after an 8.1-magnitude earthquake struck the Dominican
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UN emergency relief fund has 'never been more critical': GuterresSat, 08 Dec 2018 05:26:00 +0100.

7 December 2018 - The mission of the UN's Central Emergency Relief Fund (CERF), which enables humanitarian responders to deliver life-saving assistance whenever and wherever crises strike, is more critical than ever, said Secretary-General
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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), USGS (5), WMO (1), INFORM (2),