M 5.1 in Vanuatu on 26 Feb 2021 11:21 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 1257557
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.4718 , 167.4797
Event Date: 26 Feb 2021 11:21 UTC
26 Feb 2021 22:21 Local
Exposed Population:
About 71000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Feb 2021 11:53 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ddv7 Scaled population (vector) 3.86  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),