M 5.1 in Vanuatu on 06 May 2021 12:20 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 1267698
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.5721 , 167.2405
Event Date: 06 May 2021 12:20 UTC
06 May 2021 23:20 Local
Exposed Population:
About 44000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 May 2021 14:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000e0lw Scaled population (vector) 4.49  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 25 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Moderate 4.2 quake hits near Fayzabad, Faīẕābād, Badakhshan, Afghanist ... Thu, 06 May 2021 15:38:00 +0200.

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake near Norsup, Malampa Province, Vanuatu, was reported only 18 minutes ago by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), considered one of the key international agencies that monitor seismic activity worldwid
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Magnitude 5.3 earthquake strikes near Norsup, Malampa Province, Vanuat ... Thu, 06 May 2021 15:07:00 +0200.

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake near Norsup, Malampa Province, Vanuatu, was reported only 18 minutes ago by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), considered one of the key international agencies that monitor seismic activity worldwid
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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),