M 5.1 in Vanuatu on 15 Aug 2016 18:01 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 1091921
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.368 , 172.8141
Event Date: 15 Aug 2016 18:01 UTC
16 Aug 2016 06:01 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Aug 2016 18:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006dym Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),