M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 26 Dec 2021 05:37 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 1303457
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.9654 , 172.0586
Event Date: 26 Dec 2021 05:37 UTC
26 Dec 2021 16:37 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 26 Dec 2021 06:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gfcm Scaled population (vector) -0.15  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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North Australia jolted by Indonesian earthquake, no injuries, damages .. 12/30/2021 2:31:00 AM.

Contributed by NAMPA / Xinhua. CANBERRA, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Parts of northern Australia was jolted by a 7.4-magnitude earthquake that hit off the coast of Indonesia early Thursday morning, with no immediate reports of damage or injuries. T
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),