M 5 in New Caledonia on 29 Aug 2018 04:27 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 1155214
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.2359 , 169.798
Event Date: 29 Aug 2018 04:27 UTC
29 Aug 2018 15:27 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Aug 2018 04:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Caledonia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000gjb9 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (4), OCHA (1), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),