M 5.4 in Vanuatu on 13 Feb 2022 14:48 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 1309945
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.0175 , 173.5579
Event Date: 13 Feb 2022 14:48 UTC
14 Feb 2022 02:48 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 13 Feb 2022 15:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gkjc Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),