M 5.5 in Vanuatu on 28 Feb 2021 20:37 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 1257922
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.6761 , 172.3816
Event Date: 28 Feb 2021 20:37 UTC
01 Mar 2021 07:37 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 Feb 2021 20:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000deeg Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),