M 4.7 in Vanuatu on 17 Jun 2016 10:11 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 1088335
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.6054 , 168.8781
Event Date: 17 Jun 2016 10:11 UTC
17 Jun 2016 21:11 Local
Exposed Population:
About 203 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jun 2016 11:18 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006514 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

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),