M 5 in Vanuatu on 26 Aug 2022 16:10 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 1335044
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 172.804 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.4889 , 167.3473
Event Date: 26 Aug 2022 16:10 UTC
27 Aug 2022 03:10 Local
Exposed Population:
40 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 26 Aug 2022 18:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000i2qa Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),