M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 15 Dec 2013 22:17 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 1020308
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 214.94 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.2 , 168.44
Event Date: 15 Dec 2013 22:17 UTC
16 Dec 2013 09:17 Local
Exposed Population:
About 66782 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Dec 2013 22:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),