M 5.4 in New Caledonia on 24 Apr 2024 01:23 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 1425595
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 8 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.7704 , 171.6627
Event Date: 24 Apr 2024 01:23 UTC
24 Apr 2024 12:23 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 25 Apr 2024 03:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Caledonia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mtc7 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), WMO (1), INFORM (2),