Overall Green Earthquake alert in Vanuatu on 08 Dec 2023 07:19 UTC

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M 5.6 in Vanuatu on 08 Dec 2023 07:19 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 1404730
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.6M
Depth:	46.2 Km
Lat/Lon:	-20.3873 , 169.4892
Event Date:	08 Dec 2023 07:19 UTC 08 Dec 2023 18:19 Local
Exposed Population:	30 thousand in MMI&>=III
Inserted at:	08 Dec 2023 07:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us7000lh9a	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	0
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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Latest media headlines

Magnitude 7.1 quake strikes off Vanuatu, triggering Tsunami... 12/11/2023 10:40:00 PM.

NNA - A 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck south of Vanuatu on Thursday, the United States Geological Survey said, triggering a tsunami warning. The offshore quake hit at 1256 GMT at a depth of 48 kilometres (30 miles), about 123 kilometres so

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),

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