M 6.4 in Vanuatu on 19 Feb 2015 13:18 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 1048782
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.4402 , 168.1194
Event Date: 19 Feb 2015 13:18 UTC
20 Feb 2015 00:18 Local
Exposed Population: About 58000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Feb 2015 14:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.1 0
Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0.16m  
  C1 earthquake 1 Max wave realtime 0.16m  
  C2 earthquake 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 196 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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. AFP PHOTO/POOL/Alan Porritt Pemimpin oposisi konservatif Australia, Tony Abbott (kanan), saat berbicara di National Press Club di Canberra dalam debat dengan Perdana Menteri Australia Kevin Rudd pada Minggu (11/8/2013). BOGOR, KOMPAS.co
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),