M 4.6 in New Caledonia on 13 Nov 2017 21:16 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 1126307
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.6129 , 168.7845
Event Date: 13 Nov 2017 21:16 UTC
14 Nov 2017 08:16 Local
Exposed Population:
About 700 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Nov 2017 22:31 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bmvs Scaled population (vector) 1.9  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 999 | About casualties: 274 | Last hour: 0

A hypnotic account of the tsunamiFri, 17 Nov 2017 20:39:00 +0100.

In a review published in The Guardian, Richard Lloyd Parry’s book “Ghosts of the Tsunami: Death and Life in Japan’s Disaster Zone” has been described by Eri Hotta as “a compassionate and piercing look at the communities ravaged by the earth
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100,000 homeless, 30,000 buildings destroyed in Iran quakeFri, 17 Nov 2017 20:30:00 +0100.

Iranian authorities gave up hope of finding survivors of this week's 7.3-magnitude earthquake on Friday as they ended rescue operations and took stock of the damage: thousands injured or homeless and tens of thousands of buildings damaged o
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Remece a Ecuador sismo... durante simulacroFri, 17 Nov 2017 20:20:00 +0100.

17/11/2017 13:01 / Guayaquil, Ecuador Un sismo de 6.2 en la escala Richter remeció este viernes Guayaquil y a varias ciudades ecuatorianas, incluyendo Quito, en la misma jornada en donde se realizaba un simulacro de emergencias. El temblor
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Fuerte sismo de 6,2 grados se registró a las 08:40 en GuayaquilFri, 17 Nov 2017 20:06:00 +0100.

Un fuerte sismo de 6,2 grados en la escala de Richter con epicentro en Guayaquil sorprendió a los ciudadanos. El movimiento telúrico se dio a las 08H40, tan solo 20 minutos antes de que las autoridades locales den inicio a un gran simulacro
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),