M 4.9 in New Caledonia on 14 Nov 2017 05:25 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 1126330
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 19.06 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.3282 , 168.4792
Event Date: 14 Nov 2017 05:25 UTC
14 Nov 2017 16:25 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Nov 2017 05:53 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bn3y Scaled population (vector) 3.45  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),