M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 01 Apr 2023 10:36 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 1367549
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 87.667 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.3957 , 169.4023
Event Date: 01 Apr 2023 10:36 UTC
01 Apr 2023 21:36 Local
Exposed Population:
30 thousand in MMI&>=III
Inserted at: 01 Apr 2023 10:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000k1c0 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),