M 5.4 in Vanuatu on 08 Jun 2026 18:49 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 1544988
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 59.6 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.1981 , 169.9905
Event Date: 08 Jun 2026 18:49 UTC
09 Jun 2026 05:49 Local
Exposed Population: 30 thousand in MMI>=III
Inserted at: 08 Jun 2026 19:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000srkc 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

5.2-magnitude quake hits Vanuatu Islands -- GFZ 6/12/2026 1:50:00 AM.

BEIJING, June 12 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Vanuatu Islands at 2132 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 171.5 km, was initially determined to be
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5.2-magnitude quake hits Vanuatu Islands -- GFZ 6/12/2026 1:50:00 AM.

BEIJING, June 12 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Vanuatu Islands at 2132 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 171.5 km, was initially determined to be
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5.2-magnitude quake hits Vanuatu Islands -- GFZ 6/11/2026 10:04:00 PM.

BEIJING, June 12 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Vanuatu Islands at 2132 GMT on Thursday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 171.5 km, was initially determined to be
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Thursday, 11 June 2026, 11:06 am Press Release: Save The Children About 30,000 people, including children, have been displaced in the southern Philippines following one of the strongest earthquakes to hit the country in half a century. The
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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),