M 5.5 in South Of Fiji Islands on 03 Aug 2021 10:23 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 1279948
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 457.28 Km
Lat/Lon: -25.429 , 179.9019
Event Date: 03 Aug 2021 10:23 UTC
03 Aug 2021 22:23 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 04 Aug 2021 14:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000f1td 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

Data, images, links, services and documents

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