M 5.2 in Vanuatu on 16 Feb 2024 20:47 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 1415710
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 170.6 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.0036 , 168.5207
Event Date: 16 Feb 2024 20:47 UTC
17 Feb 2024 07:47 Local
Exposed Population:
70 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 17 Feb 2024 18:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000lzqy 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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5.2-magnitude quake hits 34 km SE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu: USGS 2/17/2024 12:41:00 AM.

NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted 34 km SE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu at 20:47:29 GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 148.2 km, was initially determined to be at
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5.2-magnitude quake hits 34 km SE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu: USGS 2/17/2024 12:41:00 AM.

NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted 34 km SE of Port-Vila, Vanuatu at 20:47:29 GMT on Friday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 148.2 km, was initially determined to be at
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NEW YORK, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 jolted Vanuatu islands at 20:47:21 GMT on Friday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to b
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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),