M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 06 May 2024 18:55 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 1427635
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 91.7 Km
Lat/Lon: -13.0361 , 166.6969
Event Date: 06 May 2024 18:55 UTC
07 May 2024 05:55 Local
Exposed Population:
1 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 06 May 2024 19:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mwst Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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1st LD Writethru: 5.2-magnitude quake hits Vanuatu Islands -- GFZ 5/9/2024 6:22:00 AM.

BEIJING, May 9 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Vanuatu Islands at 0308 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at
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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),