M 6.4 in Fiji Islands Region on 19 Aug 2017 02:00 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 1119588
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.4M
Depth: 538.62 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.9654 , -178.8503
Event Date: 19 Aug 2017 02:00 UTC
19 Aug 2017 14:00 Local
Exposed Population:
About 6000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Aug 2017 02:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a9n1 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Dendrobium BinaliWed, 23 Aug 2017 00:47:00 +0200.

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India's Farmers Revive Traditional Grains in Face of Severe DroughtWed, 23 Aug 2017 00:37:00 +0200.

THIRUTHURAIPOONDI, INDIA — For Nel Jayaraman, the realization that hybrid seeds, chemical fertilizers and pesticides were making farmers more vulnerable to extreme weather came slowly. In fields near the town of Thiruthuraipoondi in the sou
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TEPCO starts freezing last section of ice wall around Fukushima reacto ... Tue, 22 Aug 2017 23:56:00 +0200.

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant's operator on Tuesday started freezing the last section of a 35-billion yen ($320 million) ice wall designed to cut down on vast amounts of contaminated water at the site of the worst atomic accident in a
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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),