M 5.5 in Wallis and Futuna on 16 Jun 2018 03:23 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 1146209
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.2492 , -177.6084
Event Date: 16 Jun 2018 03:23 UTC
15 Jun 2018 15:23 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jun 2018 03:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Wallis & Futuna)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000eszl Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Earthquake of magnitude 5.5 strikes south of Wallis and Futuna - USGSSun, 17 Jun 2018 04:10:00 +0200.

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck 223 km (139 miles) south-southeast off the coast of Sigave in the French territory of Wallis and Futuna in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Saturday. There wer
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Reuters: Earthquake of magnitude 5.5 strikes south of Wallis and Futun ... Sat, 16 Jun 2018 10:52:00 +0200.

Singapore. An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck 223 km (139 miles) south-southeast off the coast of Sigave in the French territory of Wallis and Futuna in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Saturday. There were no immedi
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Earthquake of magnitude 5.5 strikes south of Wallis and FutunaSat, 16 Jun 2018 08:36:00 +0200.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck 223 km (139 miles) south-southeast off the coast of Sigave in the French territory of Wallis and Futuna in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Saturday. There were no immediate reports
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Earthquake of magnitude 5.5 strikes south of Wallis and Futuna -USGSSat, 16 Jun 2018 07:44:00 +0200.

(Adds details) SINGAPORE, June 16 (Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck 223 km (139 miles) south-southeast off the coast of Sigave in the French territory of Wallis and Futuna in the Pacific Ocean, the U.S. Geological Survey sai
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),