M 5.3 in Vanuatu on 04 May 2024 03:17 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 1427174
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 163.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.6509 , 167.1628
Event Date: 04 May 2024 03:17 UTC
04 May 2024 14:17 Local
Exposed Population:
60 thousand in MMI&>=III
Inserted at: 04 May 2024 03:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mw9b 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),