M 5.6 in Vanuatu Islands on 23 May 2022 19:26 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 1323747
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.0699 , 167.5553
Event Date: 23 May 2022 19:26 UTC
24 May 2022 06:26 Local
Exposed Population: 30 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 23 May 2022 21:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000hc03 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),