M 5.5 in Fiji Islands Region on 14 Nov 2017 10:50 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 1126363
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 603.53 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.1544 , -177.9864
Event Date: 14 Nov 2017 10:50 UTC
14 Nov 2017 23:50 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Nov 2017 11:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bn70 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 407 | About casualties: 27 | Last hour: 0

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Doomsday on Sunday? Astronomer dismisses conspiracy theory about Nibir ... Sat, 18 Nov 2017 10:28:00 +0100.

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Central-Coast 6 mins ago 10:35 p.m. OSU building tsunami vertical evac ... Sat, 18 Nov 2017 07:46:00 +0100.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),