M 6.2 in Fiji on 10 Mar 2019 08:12 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 1172984
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 567.38 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.8313 , -178.662
Event Date: 10 Mar 2019 08:12 UTC
10 Mar 2019 20:12 Local
Exposed Population:
About 6000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Mar 2019 08:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us1000jd55 Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 earthquake 1 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 5 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

President to visit three Pacific alliesTue, 12 Mar 2019 18:39:00 +0100.

President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is to embark on an eight-day state visit to three of Taiwan’s diplomatic allies in the Pacific next week to exchange experiences about democratization and sustainable development, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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FIJI TERREMOTO - Terremoto de magnitude 6,2 graus sacode leste das ilh ... Sun, 10 Mar 2019 15:13:00 +0100.

Um terremoto de magnitude 6,2 grausa na escala de Richter sacudiu este domingo a região leste das ilhas Fiji, no Pacífico sul, informou o Instituto Geológico dos Estados Unidos, sem que tenha sido ativado alerta de tsunami. O tremor acontec
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Strange tides at Lyttleton spark call to tsunami experts 1 hour agoWed, 13 Feb 2019 04:47:00 +0100.

Locals were left so spooked by weird tides at a Canterbury beach yesterday that GNS Science experts were asked to look into a potential tsunami. But the reason for the dramatic fluctuations around Lyttleton weren't the result of an approach
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Spooky tides spark call to tsunami expertsWed, 13 Feb 2019 02:04:00 +0100.

Locals were left so spooked by weird tides at a Canterbury beach yesterday that GNS Science experts were asked to look into a potential tsunami. But the reason for the dramatic fluctuations around Lyttleton weren't the result of an approach
...(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 (84), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), INFORM (4), USGS (2), NOAA (1),