M 6.1 in Wallis and Futuna on 28 Oct 2014 03:15 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 1042160
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.19 , -174.67
Event Date: 28 Oct 2014 03:15 UTC
27 Oct 2014 15:15 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Oct 2014 05:30 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),