M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 21 May 2017 07:10 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 1113504
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 83.23 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.3891 , 169.3974
Event Date: 21 May 2017 07:10 UTC
21 May 2017 18:10 Local
Exposed Population:
About 22000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 May 2017 07:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10008tzy Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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),