M 5 in Vanuatu on 29 Nov 2025 11:50 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 1512494
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -13.6752 , 166.5035
Event Date: 29 Nov 2025 11:50 UTC
29 Nov 2025 22:50 Local
Exposed Population:
3 thousand in MMI&>=III
Inserted at: 29 Nov 2025 12:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000relb Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),