M 6.9 in South Of Fiji Islands on 24 Feb 2017 17:28 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 1106359
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.9M
Depth: 396.08 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.2032 , -178.845
Event Date: 24 Feb 2017 17:28 UTC
24 Feb 2017 05:28 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Feb 2017 17:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 1
us20008m3t Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake 1 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Latest media headlines

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Fuerte sismo en la región de FukushimaTue, 28 Feb 2017 17:08:00 +0100.

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6.0-magnitude earthquake jolts parts of PakistanTue, 28 Feb 2017 17:05:00 +0100.

ISLAMABAD, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit parts of Pakistan Tuesday evening, local meteorological office said. The Pakistan Meteorological Department said on its website that the tremor, which hit the country at 6:42 p.m
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BREAKING: Powerful earthquake strikes off the coast of stricken Fukush ... Tue, 28 Feb 2017 17:02:00 +0100.

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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 (81), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (3), INFORM (2), USGS (2), NOAA (1),