M 5.1 in Vanuatu on 26 May 2017 22:32 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 1113867
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 87.39 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.8169 , 167.2278
Event Date: 26 May 2017 22:32 UTC
27 May 2017 09:32 Local
Exposed Population:
About 58000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 May 2017 00:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10008vlr Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 393 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

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The exhibition, which spans three decades and encompasses more than 50 works, does not ignore this popular face of the artist. For example, “Flowerball 2” (2002) and “Flowerball 3D” (2008), round paintings brimming with his bright, smiley-f
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Mañana participa de Primer Simulacro Nacional de Sismo y TsunamiTue, 30 May 2017 20:23:00 +0200.

El Instituto Nacional de Defensa Civil (INDECI) organiza mañana el primer Simulacro Nacional de Sismo, Tsunami y otros desastres naturales, con el fin de medir el nivel de preparación de las autoridades y la comunidad en su conjunto frente
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),