M 6.6 in Vanuatu on 02 Mar 2023 18:04 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 1362791
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -15.2929 , 166.3657
Event Date: 02 Mar 2023 18:04 UTC
03 Mar 2023 05:04 Local
Exposed Population: 20 thousand in MMI&>=V
Inserted at: 02 Mar 2023 18:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.3 0.3
usd000j5jt Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0.37m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0.37m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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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),