M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 26 Nov 2025 09:42 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 1512030
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.458 , 168.4392
Event Date: 26 Nov 2025 09:42 UTC
26 Nov 2025 20:42 Local
Exposed Population:
30 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 26 Nov 2025 10:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000rdwa Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Magnitude 5.4 earthquake strikes near Sola, Torba Province, Vanuatu 11/29/2025 12:21:00 PM.

A shallow magnitude 5.4 earthquake was reported late at night near Sola, Torba Province, Vanuatu. According to Indonesia''s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency, the quake hit on Saturday, November 29th, 2025, at 10:50 pm local
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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),