M 5 in Vanuatu on 29 Mar 2024 06:29 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 1421637
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.8182 , 168.1238
Event Date: 29 Mar 2024 06:29 UTC
29 Mar 2024 17:29 Local
Exposed Population:
1 thousand in MMI V
Inserted at: 29 Mar 2024 06:50 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000m8pz Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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),