M 4.7 in Fiji Islands Region on 19 May 2019 18:51 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 1179970
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 388.89 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.4627 , -177.2867
Event Date: 19 May 2019 18:51 UTC
19 May 2019 06:51 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 May 2019 20:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70003nar Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 4 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Pacific regionTue, 21 May 2019 05:09:00 +0200.

Natural disasters ranging from cyclones to floods, droughts and earthquakes frequently occur in the Pacific region. The pacific island countries (including Papua New Guinea, Fiji Islands, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands and Vanuatu) rank amon
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19 May 2019-Strong Earthquake in Southeast of Loyalty Islands at 19 Ma ... Sun, 19 May 2019 05:13:00 +0200.

JMM/POCGN(O)/BK-23B Ruj. Kami: JMM.APL15/756/22/07 Jld.15(98) PRESS RELEASE Strong Earthquake in Southeast of Loyalty Islands A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.2 on the Richter scale occurred near Southeast of Loyalty Islands at 9:23am (Ma
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FIJI SEISMOLOGIST QUESTIONS TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEMTue, 07 May 2019 10:46:00 +0200.

SUVA, Fiji (Fiji Times, May 4) – The Seismology Department in Fiji is questioning the effectiveness of an early warning system based at the in Hawaii. Seismologist Nilesh Kumar Jit said it took more than half an hour for a tsunami warning t
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THREE EARTHQUAKES SHAKE FIJIMon, 22 Apr 2019 10:04:00 +0200.

Tonga records 6.8 quake two days later. SUVA, Fiji (Fijilive, Nov. 23, 2009) - A 3.8 magnitude earthquake was felt on the north of Fiji’s main island Monday morning, following two stronger tremors only hours earlier. The Mineral Resources D
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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),