M 4.8 in Fiji Islands Region on 21 Feb 2017 02:26 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 1106068
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 550.37 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.5967 , -178.3389
Event Date: 21 Feb 2017 02:26 UTC
20 Feb 2017 14:26 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Feb 2017 02:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008l1d 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: 773 | About casualties: 14 | Last hour: 0

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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),