Overall Green Earthquake alert in Vanuatu on 30 Sep 2020 19:35 UTC

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M 5.4 in Vanuatu on 30 Sep 2020 19:35 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 1237499
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.4M
Depth:	8.74 Km
Lat/Lon:	-17.0258 , 167.7784
Event Date:	30 Sep 2020 19:35 UTC 01 Oct 2020 06:35 Local
Exposed Population:	110000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	02 Oct 2020 20:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000c3bi	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	-0.59
	C2 shakemap	0.53
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1.12

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