M 6.3 in Vanuatu on 23 Jan 2024 14:33 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 1411734
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 31 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.9961 , 168.0457
Event Date: 23 Jan 2024 14:33 UTC
24 Jan 2024 01:33 Local
Exposed Population: 3 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 26 Jan 2024 22:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000lt73 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 rapid impact 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 rapid impact 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 (91), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (2), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),