M 6 in Vanuatu on 04 Dec 2019 20:10 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 1196068
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 266 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.0515 , 169.5628
Event Date: 04 Dec 2019 20:10 UTC
05 Dec 2019 07:10 Local
Exposed Population:
About 36000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Dec 2019 23:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60006m2j 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: 7 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Feed aggregatorTue, 03 Dec 2019 04:40:00 +0100.

Tropical Cyclone KAMMURI (named TISOY in the Philippines) is moving west over the Philippine Sea, approaching the eastern coast of Luzon and Visayas Islands (Bicol Region, central Philippines). On 2 December at 0.00 UTC, its centre was appr
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Feed aggregatorSat, 30 Nov 2019 04:59:00 +0100.

The number of affected people has risen to 250,000 after widespread floods and flash floods hit several parts of the country, Djibouti City in particular. Up to 5,000 people that were evacuated are now returning to their homes, but 100,000
...(more)
Feed aggregatorFri, 29 Nov 2019 04:16:00 +0100.

Heavy rainfall affected several parts of the country (particularly the capital Kinshasa) on 25-26 November causing floods and triggering landslides, displacing 400,000 people. According to media reports, as of 28 November, at least 41 peopl
...(more)
Vanuatu: Vanuatu Volcano Alert Bulletin n°10 - Ambrym Activity (28 Nov ... Thu, 28 Nov 2019 05:36:00 +0100.

AMBRYM VOLCANO 16°15’00”S 168°07’00”E Summit Elevation 4377ft (1334m) Current Vanuatu Volcano Alert Level: Level 1. Ambrym volcano is continuing in the minor unrest state. The Volcanic Alert Level remains at Level 1. The current volcanic ac
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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),