M 4.7 in New Caledonia on 14 Nov 2017 00:24 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 1126319
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.6203 , 168.4183
Event Date: 14 Nov 2017 00:24 UTC
14 Nov 2017 11:24 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Nov 2017 01:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bn0d Scaled population (vector) 3.5  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Sismo de 6,2 sacudió a Ecuador sin dejar víctimasFri, 17 Nov 2017 22:15:00 +0100.

Un sismo de 6,2 grados de magnitud remeció el viernes a Ecuador sin dejar víctimas y sin que se reporten "mayores afectaciones", informaron autoridades. "No hay reporte de personas afectadas, la situación se encuentra controlada", dijo a la
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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),