M 5.4 in Vanuatu on 06 Jan 2014 01:25 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 1022358
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 24.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.5219 , 172.6386
Event Date: 06 Jan 2014 01:25 UTC
06 Jan 2014 13:25 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jan 2014 01:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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 (40), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),