M 6.4 in Vanuatu on 31 Mar 2022 19:50 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 1316377
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.4M
Depth: 20 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.6651 , 170.7798
Event Date: 31 Mar 2022 19:50 UTC
01 Apr 2022 06:50 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI V
Few people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 07 Apr 2022 15:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000gysz Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (91), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),