M 5.2 in Vanuatu on 12 Aug 2016 21:32 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 1091744
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.5839 , 173.383
Event Date: 12 Aug 2016 21:32 UTC
13 Aug 2016 09:32 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Aug 2016 21:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006dgq 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 403 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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Stunning animation shows the Earth's 'supercharged' Van Allen belt as ... Tue, 16 Aug 2016 21:08:00 +0200.

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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),