M 4.9 in Fiji Islands on 16 Jun 2017 17:03 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 1115121
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.7998 , 177.3521
Event Date: 16 Jun 2017 17:03 UTC
17 Jun 2017 05:03 Local
Exposed Population:
160000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jun 2017 17:56 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20009n4a 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: 643 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 0

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IMAGINILE ZILEI Un tsunami a lovit partea de nord vest a Groenlandei. ... Tue, 20 Jun 2017 16:29:00 +0200.

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VIDEO. Tsunami au Groenland. Quatre personnes emportées par les eauxTue, 20 Jun 2017 16:24:00 +0200.

Un pan de montagne de 300 mètres de large sur 1000 mètres de haut a glissé dans la mer samedi, près du village de Nûgâtsiaq au Groenland. Ce glissement de terrain a provoqué un tsunami. Une vidéo amateur a été mise en ligne. Elle traduit bi
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IMAGINILE ZILEI Un tsunami a lovit partea de nord vest a Groenlandei. ... Tue, 20 Jun 2017 16:12:00 +0200.

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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),