M 6.3 in Vanuatu on 09 Apr 2022 20:52 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 1317562
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.3166 , 166.8484
Event Date: 09 Apr 2022 20:52 UTC
10 Apr 2022 07:52 Local
Exposed Population: About 4000 people in MMI
60 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 09 Apr 2022 21:32 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.2 0.2
us7000h0yj Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0.21m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0.21m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1.12      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 578 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

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Undersea detector proves it’s swell2022-04-13T19:22+0200.

In the time it takes you to read this sentence, approximately 100,000 muon particles will have passed through your body. But don't worry, muons pass through ordinary matter harmlessly, and they can be extremely useful too. Professor Hiroyuk
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Environmental factors behind depression in Sri Lanka2022-04-13T19:19+0200.

Depression is influenced more by environmental factors than genetic ones, said a study conducted in Sri Lanka—a country devastated by a long-running civil war (1983–2009) and the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, resulting in hundreds of thousands
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Undersea detector proves it’s swell – A first-of-its-kind cosmic ray s ... 2022-04-13T19:01+0200.

Highly energetic particles called muons are ever present in the atmosphere and pass through even massive objects with ease. Sensitive detectors installed along the Tokyo Bay tunnel measure muons passing through the sea above them. This allo
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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 (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),