M 6.8 in Vanuatu on 21 Dec 2012 22:28 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 121548
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.8M
Depth: 207.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.3824 , 167.26
Event Date: 21 Dec 2012 22:28 UTC
22 Dec 2012 09:28 Local
Exposed Population:
About 22713 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Dec 2012 22:46 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC n.a 0 0.5
usc000eek3 Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 384 | About casualties: 8 | Last hour: 0

Boxing Day Tsunami: Survivors of 2004 tsunami left horrified after bei ... Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:23:00 +0100.

The trailer for The Impossible - starring Ewan McGregor - is being screened without any prior notice before fantasy fiction movie The Hobbit.
Futuro premiê japonês pressiona banco central para evitar deflaçãoTue, 25 Dec 2012 21:03:00 +0100.

TÓQUIO – O futuro primeiro-ministro japonês, Shinzo Abe, manteve nesta terça-feira seus pedidos para que o Banco do Japão (BOJ) afrouxe drasticamente a política monetária por estabelecer meta de inflação de 2%, e repetiu que quer domar o ie
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Ocho años del tsunami que causó 8.000 muertos en TailandiaTue, 25 Dec 2012 20:52:00 +0100.

Las playas de Tailandia en las que transcurre la muy taquillera película "Lo imposible", bullen de gente cuando se acerca el octavo aniversario del Tsunami que causó 8.000 muertos, sólo en esta margen de océano Indico.
Japan’s defeated ruling party picks new leaderTue, 25 Dec 2012 20:22:00 +0100.

TOKYO: Japan’s defeated Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) yesterday picked as its new leader the industry minister during last year’s Fukushima nuclear crisis, after suffering a landslide electoral defeat. Banri Kaieda, 63, who broke down in
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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.
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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 (81), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), INFORM (4), USGS (2), NOAA (1),