M 5.3 in South Of Fiji Islands on 06 Mar 2017 03:06 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 1107115
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 35.73 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.5991 , 178.3764
Event Date: 06 Mar 2017 03:06 UTC
06 Mar 2017 15:06 Local
Exposed Population:
About 10000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Mar 2017 01:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000877f Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1029 | About casualties: 29 | Last hour: 0

SPC Severe Thunderstorm Watch 73Fri, 10 Mar 2017 02:48:00 +0100.

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Americas region adopts 'historic' disaster risk reduction plan a ... Fri, 10 Mar 2017 02:48:00 +0100.

Source: United Nations 2. Headline: Americas region adopts 'historic' disaster risk reduction plan at UN-backed forum in Montreal. 9 March 2017 – Around 50 countries and territories of the Americas at a United Nations-supported confer
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Americas region adopts 'historic' disaster risk reduction plan at UN-b ... Fri, 10 Mar 2017 02:48:00 +0100.

Source: United Nations 4. Headline: Americas region adopts ‘historic’ disaster risk reduction plan at UN-backed forum in Montreal. 9 March 2017 – Around 50 countries and territories of the Americas at a United Nations-supported conference i
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Americas region adopts 'historic' disaster risk reduction plan at UN-b ... Fri, 10 Mar 2017 02:27:00 +0100.

9 March 2017 #150 Around 50 countries and territories of the Americas at a United Nations-supported conference in Montreal, Canada, agreed a Regional Action Plan today to better protect their citizens from the destruction caused by natural
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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),