Overall Green Earthquake alert in Vanuatu on 28 May 2025 08:57 UTC

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M 5.9 in Vanuatu on 28 May 2025 08:57 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 1483527
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.9M
Depth:	202.4 Km
Lat/Lon:	-14.2672 , 167.2762
Event Date:	28 May 2025 08:57 UTC 28 May 2025 19:57 Local
Exposed Population:	20 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at:	28 May 2025 09:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	6.1 (Vanuatu)

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000qgd9	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	0
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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