Overall Green Earthquake in Vanuatu on 16 Aug 2026 03:20 UTC

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M 6.1 in Vanuatu on 16 Aug 2026 03:20 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 1558766
Earthquake Magnitude:	6.1M
Depth:	188.1 Km
Lat/Lon:	-14.5474 , 167.1934
Event Date:	16 Aug 2026 03:20 UTC 16 Aug 2026 14:20 Local
Exposed Population:	5 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at:	16 Aug 2026 03:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Vanuatu)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000tl4w	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	0
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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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),

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