M 5.5 in Vanuatu on 17 Dec 2024 01:53 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 1458095
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Glide number: EQ-2024-000227-VUT
Depth: 48.7 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.7548 , 167.9646
Event Date: 17 Dec 2024 01:53 UTC
17 Dec 2024 12:53 Local
Exposed Population: 70 thousand in MMI IV
Inserted at: 17 Dec 2024 02:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
6.1 (Vanuatu)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000nzf4 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Australians return home as Vanuatu rescues continue 12/21/2024 1:51:00 AM.

Another 141 Australian citizens touched down in Brisbane overnight, bringing the total to 424 holiday makers, workers and other returnees landing via military airlifts delivering humanitarian aid since Wednesday. Two further RAAF humanitar
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RAAF flies more Australians home and delivers humanitarian aid to Vanu.. 12/21/2024 1:36:00 AM.

Australian humanitarian supplies have arrived in the quake-hit Pacific nation of Vanuatu, as RAAF flights take more stranded Australians home. Overnight, 141 more Australian citizens were assisted back to Australia on Royal Australian Air F
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Earthquake Today: Tremors Felt In Nepal After Quake Of Magnitude 4.8 12/21/2024 1:24:00 AM.

- Live Mint) Earthquake today: An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 struck Nepal in the early hours of Saturday, 21 December. The earthquak occurred at 3:59 am Indian Standard Time (IST), the National Centre of Seismology (NCS) reported. The eart
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Vanuatu: Travel Advisory Raised to Level 3 – Reconsider Travel 12/21/2024 12:25:00 AM.

The Department of State raised its Travel Advisory for Vanuatu on December 20, 2024, to Level 3 – Reconsider Travel. U.S. citizens should reconsider travel to Vanuatu due to infrastructure damage from an earthquake. This replaces the previo
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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),