M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 14 May 2024 13:58 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 1428734
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 138 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.7039 , 167.7039
Event Date: 14 May 2024 13:58 UTC
15 May 2024 00:58 Local
Exposed Population:
120 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 14 May 2024 14:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000myia Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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),