M 5.8 in Vanuatu on 28 Oct 2020 14:12 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 1241234
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 178.34 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.4415 , 167.3852
Event Date: 28 Oct 2020 14:12 UTC
29 Oct 2020 01:12 Local
Exposed Population: About 22000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Oct 2020 14:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000c6sn Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1.12  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 3 | 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.

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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),