M 5.4 in Vanuatu on 02 Apr 2026 23:22 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 1532780
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 278.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.906 , 169.4841
Event Date: 02 Apr 2026 23:22 UTC
03 Apr 2026 10:22 Local
Exposed Population: 5 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 02 Apr 2026 23:41 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000sm8a Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Hotels reopenings help Pacific paradise bounce back after natural disa.. 4/3/2026 1:08:00 PM.

Fourteen months after a powerful earthquake devastated Port Vila, Vanuatu’s capital is signalling a confident return to business, with a wave of hotel reopenings and new tourism investment helping drive recovery across the island nation. P
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Hotels reopenings help Pacific paradise bounce back after natural disa.. 4/3/2026 1:08:00 PM.

Fourteen months after a powerful earthquake devastated Port Vila, Vanuatu’s capital is signalling a confident return to business, with a wave of hotel reopenings and new tourism investment helping drive recovery across the island nation. P
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Hotels reopenings help Pacific paradise bounce back after natural disa.. 4/3/2026 1:05:00 PM.

Fourteen months after a powerful earthquake devastated Port Vila, Vanuatu’s capital is signalling a confident return to business, with a wave of hotel reopenings and new tourism investment helping drive recovery across the island nation. P
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5.6-magnitude quake hits Vanuatu Islands -- GFZ 4/3/2026 1:25:00 AM.

BEIJING, April 3 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.6 jolted Vanuatu Islands at 2322 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 261.6 km, was initially determined to be
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (2),