M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 07 Dec 2017 05:10 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 1128173
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.6859 , 171.5491
Event Date: 07 Dec 2017 05:10 UTC
07 Dec 2017 16:10 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Dec 2017 06:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000c1g2 Scaled population (vector) 1.41  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),