M 4.6 in Vanuatu on 02 Jan 2017 14:19 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 1102344
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -16.1224 , 167.5461
Event Date: 02 Jan 2017 14:19 UTC
03 Jan 2017 01:19 Local
Exposed Population:
110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Jan 2017 15:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007p95 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),