M 5.1 in Vanuatu on 28 Feb 2018 16:21 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 1136115
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 16.53 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.3985 , 171.008
Event Date: 28 Feb 2018 16:21 UTC
01 Mar 2018 03:21 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Feb 2018 16:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000d96y Scaled population (vector) 1.41  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),