M 4.9 in South Of Fiji Islands on 05 Jan 2017 13:45 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 1102588
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -19.3 , 175.8541
Event Date: 05 Jan 2017 13:45 UTC
06 Jan 2017 01:45 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Jan 2017 14:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007rbh Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 755 | About casualties: 21 | Last hour: 0

Worst rain ‘in 30 years’ heaps misery on flood-hit Thai southMon, 09 Jan 2017 13:21:00 +0100.

BANGKOK: The heaviest rains in 30 years have caused the floods sweeping southern Thailand, the kingdom’s junta leader said Monday, as the army ramped up efforts to reach remote inundated areas. At least 21 people have been killed and nearly
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21 dead after worst rain 'in 30 years' in ThailandMon, 09 Jan 2017 13:07:00 +0100.

Twenty-one people have been killed and nearly one million people affected by floods in southern Thailand after days of rain across the country's southern neck. The "severe flooding is because of the worst rainfall in more than 30 years", Pr
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Worst rain ‘in 30 years’ heaps misery on flood-hit Thai southMon, 09 Jan 2017 13:01:00 +0100.

People walk in a flooded street at Muang district in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, southern Thailand, January 6, 2017. — Reuters pic BANGKOK, Jan 9 ― The heaviest rains in 30 years have caused the floods sweeping southern Thailand, the king
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Haiti: Haïti: trois mois après l’ouragan Matthew, entre urgence et rel ... Mon, 09 Jan 2017 12:59:00 +0100.

ACTED, présente en Haïti auprès des populations les plus vulnérables depuis 2004, est mobilisée depuis le passage de l’ouragan Matthew sur le Sud et la Grand’Anse le 4 octobre 2016 pour fournir une aide humanitaire d’urgence aux populations
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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