M 4.8 in Vanuatu on 12 Jan 2024 03:35 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 1410354
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 124.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.6558 , 169.8201
Event Date: 12 Jan 2024 03:35 UTC
12 Jan 2024 14:35 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 12 Jan 2024 03:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000m38e Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),