M 5.1 in Vanuatu on 11 May 2024 18:27 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 1428350
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.1065 , 168.0938
Event Date: 11 May 2024 18:27 UTC
12 May 2024 05:27 Local
Exposed Population:
3 thousand in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 14 May 2024 15:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mxys 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),