M 6.5 in Vanuatu on 21 Aug 2018 22:32 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 1154565
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.5M
Depth: 13.44 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.0169 , 168.1531
Event Date: 21 Aug 2018 22:32 UTC
22 Aug 2018 09:32 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI VII
About 86000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Aug 2018 23:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.1 0.2
us1000gf2g Scaled population (vector) 1.61 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.12m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1.12      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 60 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Volcano news - Archive Nr. 23Sat, 25 Aug 2018 15:21:00 +0200.

Via Smithsonian Institution - Global Volcanism Program / US Geological Survey's Volcano Hazards Program. Ambae | Vanuatu According to news articles and the Vanuatu Red Cross, residents of Ambae began to evacuate the island during 1-8 August
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¿Se viene el terremoto en California? Una ola de sismos en el Cinturón ... Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:10:00 +0200.

New York Post. Los terremotos han sacudido Indonesia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Japón, Fiji y Vanuatu, entre otros lugares. Este miércoles ha temblado la costa de Oregon con un sismo de magnitud 6,2 que no ha producido víctimas, según informa la
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6.7-magnitude earthquake hits Vanuatu: USGSThu, 23 Aug 2018 05:52:00 +0200.

By AFP yesterday in World A 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu on Wednesday morning, the US Geological Survey said, but no tsunami warning was issued. The quake struck at a moderate depth of 30 kilometres (19
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6.7-magnitude earthquake hits Vanuatu: USGSThu, 23 Aug 2018 00:50:00 +0200.

The 6.7-magnitude quake struck at a moderate depth of 30 kilometres (19 miles) with the epicentre just off the northern tip of Vanuatu's sparsely-populated Ambrym island (AFP Photo/PEDRO PARDO) A 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific is
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),