M 5 in Vanuatu Islands on 30 Aug 2020 21:40 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 1232420
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.1501 , 167.9134
Event Date: 30 Aug 2020 21:40 UTC
31 Aug 2020 08:40 Local
Exposed Population:
110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Aug 2020 21:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bf3r Scaled population (vector) 4.48  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 10 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Un terremoto de magnitud 5,0 sacudió este jueves las costas del noreste del archipiélago de Vanuatu, en el Pacífico Sur, sin que se haya informado de daños materiales graves o víctimas, ni se haya emitido por el momento una alerta de tsunam
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Vanuatu Volcano Alert Bulletin n°6 - Ambrym Activity (August 27th 2020 ... Thu, 27 Aug 2020 07:02:00 +0200.

AMBRYM VOLCANO. 1615’00”S 16807’00”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 volcano activity at
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5 August 2020 - Strong Earthquake in Vanuatu Islands on 5 August 2020 ... Thu, 06 Aug 2020 05:00:00 +0200.

JABATAN METEOROLOGI MALAYSIA KEMENTERIAN ALAM SEKITAR DAN AIR JALAN SULTAN Telefon : 603-7967 8000 46667 PETALING JAYA Faksimili : 603-7957 8052 SELANGOR DARUL EHSAN E-mel : seismo@met.gov.my MALAYSIA Laman Web : www.met.gov.my JMM/POCGN(O)
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Terremoto de magnitud 6,4 sacude Vanuatu, en el Pacífico SurWed, 05 Aug 2020 18:49:00 +0200.

BANGKOK.- Un terremoto de magnitud 6,4 sacudió este miércoles las costas del norte del archipiélago de Vanuatu, en el Pacífico Sur, sin que por el momento se reporten víctimas o daños materiales de gravedad, ni alerta de tsunami. El Servici
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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),