M 4.5 in Fiji Islands Region on 20 Jan 2017 14:06 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 1103687
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -15.4245 , -178.7383
Event Date: 20 Jan 2017 14:06 UTC
20 Jan 2017 02:06 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jan 2017 14:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007ubp 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: 1107 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:49:00 +0100.

Japonya'da 6 yıl önce tsunami faciasında enkaza dönen dalgakıranın inşası tamamlandı. Sahilde uzanan dalgakıranın uzunluğı 2 kilometre, yüksekliği ise 12,5 metre... Kyodo ajansının haberine göre, ülkenin kuzeydoğusundaki İwate eyaletinde 2
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Terremoto, nelle Marche servono 370 stalle, ma ne hanno portate solo d ... Tue, 24 Jan 2017 12:38:00 +0100.

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Looming cyclone may break a record drought for Australia’s regionTue, 24 Jan 2017 10:56:00 +0100.

By Peter Hannam. An unusually quiet period for cyclones in the Australian region may come to an abrupt end within days as forecasters predict a major storm will develop off the Kimberley by Friday. Any breakup of the abnormally warm waters
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),