M 4.5 in Vanuatu on 23 Feb 2021 18:16 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 1257180
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 99.76 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.9999 , 167.4348
Event Date: 23 Feb 2021 18:16 UTC
24 Feb 2021 05:16 Local
Exposed Population:
About 76000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Feb 2021 19:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000dkgd Scaled population (vector) 4.61  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
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Latest media headlines

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Event. A magnitude-5.6 offshore earthquake occurred in the Coral Sea west of Vanuatu at around 1344 VUT Feb. 20. The epicenter was about 70 km (43 miles) west-northwest of Port Vila. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 6 km (4 miles), a
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Vanuatu: Magnitude-5.3 offshore earthquake occurs off Port Vila Feb. 1 ... Fri, 19 Feb 2021 11:46:00 +0100.

Event. A magnitude-5.3 offshore earthquake occurred in the Coral Sea west of central Vanuatu at approximately 2020 Feb. 19. The epicenter was about 71 km (44 miles) west of Port Vila. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 10 km (6 miles),
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),