M 5.6 in Vanuatu on 07 May 2018 08:08 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 1142354
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.8205 , 172.2663
Event Date: 07 May 2018 08:08 UTC
07 May 2018 19:08 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 May 2018 08:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000dzt7 Scaled population (vector) -8  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 8 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Japan looks to team up with island nations on Indo-Pacific strategyWed, 09 May 2018 05:23:00 +0200.

At an upcoming summit meeting, Japan will take steps to beef up collaboration with Pacific island nations in an effort to promote the free and open Indo-Pacific strategy advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. At the eighth Pacific Islands
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Japan looks to team up with island nations on Indo-Pacific strategySun, 06 May 2018 13:27:00 +0200.

At an upcoming summit meeting, Japan will take steps to beef up collaboration with Pacific island nations in an effort to promote the free and open Indo-Pacific strategy advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. At the eighth Pacific Islands
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4:30 Debate OMC vínculos entre comercio y desastres naturalesThu, 26 Apr 2018 22:44:00 +0200.

26 de abril de 2018, 16:30 Ginebra, Suiza, 26 abr (PL) La Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) abogó hoy mejorar los vínculos entre políticas y prácticas del sector y el enfrentamiento a las catástrofes naturales, cuya frecuencia y magni
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Myanmar: Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot ( ... Mon, 23 Apr 2018 12:38:00 +0200.

MYANMAR. Armed conflict between the Myanmar Military and the Kachin Independence Army since 7 April has displaced up to 2,000 people in Tanai Township, Kachin State from Awng Lawt, Sut Ring Yang and Sut Ra villages. On 22 April, the Myanmar
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),