M 5.9 in Vanuatu on 30 Jan 2017 23:35 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 1104438
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 78.42 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.771 , 167.1599
Event Date: 30 Jan 2017 23:35 UTC
31 Jan 2017 10:35 Local
Exposed Population: About 54000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2017 00:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10007wbk 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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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),