M 5 in Fiji on 10 Nov 2018 12:57 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 1161861
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 561.57 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.1168 , -178.032
Event Date: 10 Nov 2018 12:57 UTC
11 Nov 2018 01:57 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Nov 2018 13:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000hq9w Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 30 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Preparing students to face the challenges of a tsunami : Tsunami drill ... Sat, 03 Nov 2018 20:32:00 +0100.

Five tsunami drills were conducted with the idea of building resilience and reduce the loss of lives associated with tsunamis, in five schools in Sri Lanka recently, together with the Ministry of Disaster Management, Ministry of Education,
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UNDP conducts tsunami drills in Lanka schoolsSat, 03 Nov 2018 13:25:00 +0100.

To reduce the loss of lives associated with tsunamis, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has conducted tsunami drills in 5 schools in Sri Lanka recently.These drills are part of 90 drills conducted in 90 schools across 18 count
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UNDP conducts tsunami drills in Sri Lanka schools to strengthen disast ... Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:58:00 +0100.

UNDP conducts tsunami drills in Sri Lanka schools to strengthen disaster preparedness of students Fri, Nov 2, 2018, 08:41 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 02, Colombo: To reduce the loss of lives associated with tsunamis, t
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UNDP conducts tsunami drills in Sri Lanka schools to strengthen disast ... Fri, 02 Nov 2018 16:51:00 +0100.

Fri, Nov 2, 2018, 08:41 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 02, Colombo: To reduce the loss of lives associated with tsunamis, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has conducted tsunami drills in 5 schools in Sri La
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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),