M 5.6 in Wallis and Futuna on 06 Jun 2021 18:24 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 1271992
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 421.81 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.8822 , -177.3478
Event Date: 06 Jun 2021 18:24 UTC
06 Jun 2021 06:24 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jun 2021 18:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Wallis & Futuna)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000eaib Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 6 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Light mag. 4.9 earthquake - South Pacific Ocean, Wallis & Futuna, on 2 ... Sat, 22 May 2021 17:03:00 +0200.

Just 17 minutes ago, a 4.9-magnitude earthquake struck near Leava, Sigave, Wallis & Futuna. The tremor was recorded early morning on Sunday 23 May 2021 at 2:24 am local time, at a great depth of 402 km below the surface. The event was filed
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Un séisme de magnitude 6,8 frappe au large des îles Wallis-et-Futuna ( ... Sat, 22 May 2021 11:59:00 +0200.

Un séisme de magnitude 6,8 frappe au large des îles Wallis-et-Futuna (USGS) New York – Un tremblement de terre d’une magnitude de 6,8 sur l’échelle de Richter a été ressenti vendredi soir à 256km au sud-est des îles françaises de Wallis-et-
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Strong and shallow M6.5 earthquake hits Fiji regionSat, 22 May 2021 09:25:00 +0200.

The epicenter was located 267 km (166 miles) SSE of Alo, Alo, Wallis and Futuna and 351 km (218 miles) E of Labasa, Fiji. There are no people living within 100 km (62 miles). 1 000 people are estimated to have felt light shaking and 330 000
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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), INFORM (2), USGS (2),