M 5.4 in Vanuatu on 30 Sep 2020 19:35 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 1237499
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 8.74 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.0258 , 167.7784
Event Date: 30 Sep 2020 19:35 UTC
01 Oct 2020 06:35 Local
Exposed Population: 110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Oct 2020 20:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000c3bi Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 27 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

New CaledoniaSun, 04 Oct 2020 14:58:00 +0200.

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Sin fronteras: Cuba y Asia, las rutas sanitarias de la colaboración en ... Tue, 29 Sep 2020 02:49:00 +0200.

Luego se producirían otras catástrofes en la región asiática que también movilizó la solidaridad de Cuba. En octubre de 2005, luego del terremoto que sacudió a Pakistán y causó alrededor de 70 mil muertes, Cuba ofreció al entonces president
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VANUATU TERREMOTO - Un seísmo de magnitud 5,9 golpea la zona central d ... Sat, 12 Sep 2020 13:05:00 +0200.

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),