M 4.9 in New Caledonia on 21 Nov 2017 09:56 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 1127025
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.3339 , 168.5969
Event Date: 21 Nov 2017 09:56 UTC
21 Nov 2017 20:56 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Nov 2017 10:23 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bs8i Scaled population (vector) 2.95  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 570 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Un tsunami gratificanteFri, 24 Nov 2017 00:03:00 +0100.

Desde hace unos años se percibe la presencia de una gigantesca ola de dimensiones nunca antes vistas, que se desplaza a toda velocidad por América Latina. Se trata de un tsunami político de gran energía y tamaño que remueve a las sociedades
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Un tsunami gratificanteFri, 24 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0100.

Desde hace unos años se percibe la presencia de una gigantesca ola de dimensiones nunca antes vistas, que se desplaza a toda velocidad por América Latina. Se trata de un tsunami político de gran energía y tamaño que remueve a las sociedades
...(more)
Mock tsunami drill for East Coast todayThu, 23 Nov 2017 21:16:00 +0100.

Indian Tsunami Early Warning Centre (ITEWC), based out of the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) here is conducting ‘Multi-State Mega Mock Exercise of Tsunami for East Coast of India’ on November 24 in coordinati
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Tsunami mock drill todayThu, 23 Nov 2017 21:16:00 +0100.

National Disaster Management Authority and the Ministry of Home Affairs will hold a tsunami mock drill on Friday between 9.30 a.m. and 1.30 p.m. As a part of the exercise along the East Coast, the drill will be conducted at Chukkavanipalem
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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),