M 6.2 in Vanuatu on 26 Jul 2013 07:07 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 1000643
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 135.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.3619 , 167.5844
Event Date: 26 Jul 2013 07:07 UTC
26 Jul 2013 18:07 Local
Exposed Population:
About 77582 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jul 2013 07:29 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Meteo assessment
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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El nivel de tritio cerca de Fukushima supera el límite legal 145 vecesMon, 29 Jul 2013 15:29:00 +0200.

La electricista japonesa Tepco, operadora de la averiada planta Fukushima-1, comunicó el domingo que la concentración del isótopo radiactivo tritio en el agua subterránea bajo la central nuclear supera el límite legal 145 veces.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),