M 6 in Vanuatu on 24 Mar 2013 08:13 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 123409
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.777 , 173.407
Event Date: 24 Mar 2013 08:13 UTC
24 Mar 2013 20:13 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Mar 2013 08:35 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
usb000frwy 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.
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Meteo assessment
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),