M 4.5 in South Of Fiji Islands on 13 Jan 2018 17:32 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 1130898
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 500.25 Km
Lat/Lon: -24.5069 , -179.9606
Event Date: 13 Jan 2018 17:32 UTC
13 Jan 2018 05:32 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Jan 2018 18:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000cjbc Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),