M 5 in Vanuatu on 25 Dec 2021 12:19 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 1303353
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 217.32 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.9169 , 169.2228
Event Date: 25 Dec 2021 12:19 UTC
25 Dec 2021 23:19 Local
Exposed Population:
40 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 25 Dec 2021 12:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gf7p Scaled population (vector) 4.56  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Vanuatu: Magnitude-5.1 offshore earthquake occurs north-northeast of S.. 12/28/2021 11:01:00 PM.

Event. A magnitude-5.1 offshore earthquake occurred near Vanuatu at 06:53 VUT Dec. 29. The epicenter was about 83 km (51 miles) from Sola, Vanuatu. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 10 km (6 miles), and light shaking was probably felt
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),