M 5.4 in Vanuatu on 08 Jul 2022 01:01 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 1329613
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 93.91 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.8643 , 167.1227
Event Date: 08 Jul 2022 01:01 UTC
08 Jul 2022 12:01 Local
Exposed Population: 60 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 08 Jul 2022 01:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000i0qx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
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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),