M 5.5 in Vanuatu on 15 May 2021 01:58 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 1268814
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 19.68 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.8176 , 170.1015
Event Date: 15 May 2021 01:58 UTC
15 May 2021 12:58 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2021 02:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000e3aa Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 26 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Moderate mag. 4.8 earthquake - Coral Sea, 31 km southwest of Malakula ... Thu, 13 May 2021 21:38:00 +0200.

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Moderate magnitude 4.9 earthquake 18 km southeast of Port Vila, Vanuat ... Wed, 12 May 2021 19:19:00 +0200.

The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported a magnitude 4.9 quake in Vanuatu near Port Vila, Shefa Province, only 19 minutes ago. The earthquake hit early morning on Thursday 13 May 2021 at 3:52 am local time at an intermediat
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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),