M 4.8 in Vanuatu on 02 Mar 2021 07:52 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 1258133
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 169.79 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.3823 , 167.3307
Event Date: 02 Mar 2021 07:52 UTC
02 Mar 2021 18:52 Local
Exposed Population:
About 20000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Mar 2021 08:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000detj Scaled population (vector) 4.14  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 718 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Levantan alerta de tsunami en Nueva Zelanda tras fuertes sismosSat, 06 Mar 2021 04:54:00 +0100.

Hacia las 17:00 horas ET comenzaban a observarse las primeras olas de tsunami, según el monitor de EEUU. Decenas de miles de habitantes de las zonas costeras de Nueva Zelanda, Nueva Caledonia y Vanuatu, se refugiaron en las partes altas y e
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Nouvelle-Calédonie : frayeur sans conséquences après une alerte au tsu ... Sat, 06 Mar 2021 04:42:00 +0100.

Plus de peur que de mal. Une alerte au tsunami avait été déclenchée vendredi 5 mars en Nouvelle-Calédonie , après un séisme de magnitude 8,1 à proximité des Kermadec, des îles inhabitées du Pacifique qui font partie de la Nouvelle-Zélande.
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Skier narrowly survives avalanche by jumping off 100-foot cliff in Cal ... Sat, 06 Mar 2021 00:49:00 +0100.

Tens of thousands of coastal residents in New Zealand, New Caledonia and Vanuatu fled for higher ground on Friday after a series of powerful earthquakes triggered small tsunami waves. Warning sirens sounded as authorities ordered evacuation
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8.1 earthquake among 3 strong earthquakes that hit New Zealand; Small ... Fri, 05 Mar 2021 20:40:00 +0100.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center warned that the earthquake could cause tsunamis of up to 3 meters (10 feet) in Vanuatu and up to 1 meter (3 feet) in Tonga and other islands in the South Pacific and the Pacific coast of Latin America. Chi
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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),