M 4.6 in New Caledonia on 30 Jul 2021 17:10 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 1279346
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 21.68 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.0699 , 170.3042
Event Date: 30 Jul 2021 17:10 UTC
31 Jul 2021 04:10 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Jul 2021 18:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Caledonia)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000f0qw Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 228 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),