Overall Green Earthquake alert in Vanuatu on 09 Apr 2022 20:52 UTC

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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

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