M 4.9 in Vanuatu on 04 Feb 2022 15:59 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 1308811
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.2529 , 167.7591
Event Date: 04 Feb 2022 15:59 UTC
05 Feb 2022 02:59 Local
Exposed Population:
70 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 04 Feb 2022 16:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ghzj Scaled population (vector) 3.86  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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),