M 5.8 in Fiji on 05 Apr 2018 09:07 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 1139473
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 507.01 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.3312 , -177.8933
Event Date: 05 Apr 2018 09:07 UTC
04 Apr 2018 21:07 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Apr 2018 09:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000duvm Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 13 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Papua New Guinea: Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian S ... Mon, 02 Apr 2018 12:54:00 +0200.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA. On 29 April a M6.9 earthquake struck off the eastern coast of New Britain island. A tsunami alert was issued and then cancelled, and no casualties or severe impacts have been reported. On 26 February a M7.5 earthquake stru
...(more)
Quake shakes TongaMon, 02 Apr 2018 06:30:00 +0200.

Update: 4:10PM A 5.3 MAGNITUDE earthquake occurred in the Tonga region this afternoon. The Seismology Unit of the Department of Mineral Resources reported that the earthquake occurred at a depth of 10km at 1:50pm. It was registered at 171km
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Update: 1:08PM A 6.9 MAGNITUDE earthquake was recorded in the Papua Ne ... Fri, 30 Mar 2018 03:29:00 +0200.

Update: 1:08PM A 6.9 MAGNITUDE earthquake was recorded in the Papua New Guinea region this morning. The Seismology Unit of the Mineral Resources department said the moderate earthquake was recorded at a depth of 56km. The seismic activity w
...(more)
Fiji records 5.0 magnitude earthquakeWed, 28 Mar 2018 01:41:00 +0200.

Update: 11:33AM A MODERATE 5.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded South of the Fiji region last night. The Seismology Unit of the Mineral Resources department in Suva reported that the earthquake occurred at 9.06pm at a depth of 641km. The s
...(more)

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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),