M 7 in Vanuatu on 28 Apr 2016 19:33 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 1085346
Earthquake Magnitude: 7.0M
Depth: 27.17 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.0743 , 167.3926
Event Date: 28 Apr 2016 19:33 UTC
29 Apr 2016 06:33 Local
Exposed Population: About 75000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Apr 2016 21:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.2 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.23m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 743 | About casualties: 16 | Last hour: 0

Marina de Guerra del PerúMon, 02 May 2016 19:12:00 +0200.

El Perú conmemora hoy los 150 años del combate naval del 2 de mayo, último episodio de la guerra que enfrentó a Perú y Chile contra el dominio de España. Vientos fuertes del miércoles en la región Ucayali causó que 209 viviendas resulten a
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UN food relief agency provides logistics support to boost earthquake r ... Mon, 02 May 2016 18:02:00 +0200.

) said today that it is providing logistics support to Kumamoto prefecture in south-western Japan as part of assistance to people affected by strong earthquakes in April. WFP is initially deploying four experts to support needs assessments,
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Come Tokyo si prepara al terremoto catastrofico che arriveràMon, 02 May 2016 17:51:00 +0200.

non ha niente di divertente: ci sono finestre di uffici che vanno a pezzi, treni che deragliano e auto che cadono da ponti che stanno cedendo. Succede tutto alle 16.35 di un giorno ribattezzato come il «giorno X di Tokyo». Questo è lo scena
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Japon : le PAM fournit un soutien logistique pour aider les personnes ... Mon, 02 May 2016 17:41:00 +0200.

) fournit un soutien logistique à la préfecture de Kumamoto, dans le sud-ouest du Japon, dans le cadre des efforts des autorités locales pour assister les personnes affectées par les séismes du 14 et du 16 avril. Le PAM a déployé quatre exp
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (88), (5), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),