M 4.9 in Wallis and Futuna on 23 Feb 2021 20:51 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 1257203
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.9675 , -176.6063
Event Date: 23 Feb 2021 20:51 UTC
23 Feb 2021 08:51 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Feb 2021 23:20 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Wallis & Futuna)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000dkhc Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 25 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Alerta tsunami tras terremoto de magnitud 7.7 en el sur del PacíficoWed, 10 Feb 2021 17:57:00 +0100.

Alerta de tsunami en Vanuatu y Nueva Caledonia, las islas más cercanas al terremoto de magnitud de 7,7 que ocurrió justo después de la medianoche, hora local, pero no se prevé un tsunami en todo el Pacífico. El Centro de Alerta de Tsunamis
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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), INFORM (2), USGS (2),