M 6.1 in Fiji Islands Region on 14 Jan 2017 06:11 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 1103186
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.5884 , 176.2304
Event Date: 14 Jan 2017 06:11 UTC
14 Jan 2017 18:11 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jan 2017 06:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007t8x Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 460 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Putting a smile on kids’ faces with comic actsWed, 18 Jan 2017 05:37:00 +0100.

Get ready for a laugh riot in the coming week. ‘Clowns without Borders’ are here from France to put a smile on your face. The clowns, who made their first visit in 2006 to the tsunami-affected areas, have been making their annual visits to
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2 AñosWed, 18 Jan 2017 05:25:00 +0100.

09:37, 2015-01-17. Este vierne el papa Francisco ha abandonado la Nunciatura Apostólica de Manila y se ha trasladado en automóvil al palacio presidencial de Malacañán, que presenta en su arquitectura una fuerte influencia hispana y está ubi
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Debate en Perú al saberse que una corrupta constructora pagó el monume ... Wed, 18 Jan 2017 03:41:00 +0100.

Siempre que un caso de corrupción se hace público, se arma un cristo. En el caso que nos ocupa, el Cristo se montó literalmente, demostrando que los sobornos no entienden de fronteras, ni de religiones. La monumental figura del Cristo del P
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),