M 5.5 in Vanuatu on 22 Jul 2024 00:09 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 1438386
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 258.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.1747 , 169.5647
Event Date: 22 Jul 2024 00:09 UTC
22 Jul 2024 11:09 Local
Exposed Population: 40 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 22 Jul 2024 00:29 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000n0qt Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),