M 5.1 in Vanuatu on 18 Jul 2025 10:17 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 1490672
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.1067 , 169.6714
Event Date: 18 Jul 2025 10:17 UTC
18 Jul 2025 21:17 Local
Exposed Population:
20 thousand in MMI&>=IV
Inserted at: 18 Jul 2025 10:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qde2 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, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

From dying reefs to flooded graves, Vanuatu is leading a global climat.. 7/22/2025 3:12:00 AM.

What remains is a coral graveyard — bleached rubble scattered across the seafloor, habitats collapsed, life vanished. “We’ve come out of the water in tears,” said Warmington, who has logged thousands of dives on this single reef. “We just s
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From dying reefs to flooded graves, Vanuatu is leading a global climat.. 7/22/2025 3:11:00 AM.

On Wednesday, Vanuatu will get its day in the world’s highest court. The International Court of Justice will issue an advisory opinion on what legal obligations nations have to address climate change and what consequences they may face if t
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From dying reefs to flooded graves, Vanuatu is leading a global climat.. 7/22/2025 2:59:00 AM.

PORT VILA, Vanuatu — When John Warmington first began diving the reefs outside his home in Vanuatu’s Havannah Harbor a decade ago, the coral rose like a sunken forest — tall stands of staghorns branched into yellow antlers, plate corals lay
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The once iconic Holiday Inn villas in Port Vila, Vanuatu, Saturday, Ju.. 7/22/2025 2:34:00 AM.

Now, it’s unrecognizable. After Cyclone Pam battered the reef in 2015, sediment from inland rivers smothered the coral beds. Crown-of-thorns starfish swept in and devoured the recovering polyps. Back-to-back cyclones in 2023 crushed what wa
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),