M 6.3 in Vanuatu on 06 Jul 2012 02:28 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 117931
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 162.7 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.6642 , 167.357
Event Date: 06 Jul 2012 02:28 UTC
06 Jul 2012 13:28 Local
Exposed Population:
About 54808 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jul 2012 04:51 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usb000azes 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),