M 5.1 in Vanuatu on 09 Nov 2023 14:12 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 1399847
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 130.1 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.3325 , 167.4497
Event Date: 09 Nov 2023 14:12 UTC
10 Nov 2023 01:12 Local
Exposed Population:
50 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 09 Nov 2023 14:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000l9ul Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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HONG KONG, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 jolted Vanuatu Islands at 12:35:31 GMT on Saturday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined t
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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),