M 5.5 in Southeast Of Loyalty Islands on 26 Dec 2019 02:21 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 1199647
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 59.95 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.0846 , 173.1524
Event Date: 26 Dec 2019 02:21 UTC
26 Dec 2019 14:21 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Dec 2019 02:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70006r3m Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),