M 5.5 in Vanuatu on 19 Feb 2015 14:32 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 1048789
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.5341 , 168.0188
Event Date: 19 Feb 2015 14:32 UTC
20 Feb 2015 01:32 Local
Exposed Population: About 55000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Feb 2015 20:25 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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 (48), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),