M 5.5 in South Of Fiji Islands on 11 Jan 2018 17:53 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 1130719
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 510.33 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.8924 , 179.9732
Event Date: 11 Jan 2018 17:53 UTC
12 Jan 2018 05:53 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Jan 2018 18:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000ciek Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 354 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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Angry Reactions Continue to Trump's Vulgar Immigration RemarkSun, 14 Jan 2018 00:15:00 +0100.

Reactions to President Donald Trump's use of a vulgar slur to explain his opposition to Haitian and African migration to the United States were continuing to circulate Saturday. Trump stunned lawmakers Thursday in a White House meeting on i
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'Wrong button': Human error responsible for terrifying false missile a ... Sat, 13 Jan 2018 22:29:00 +0100.

Alerts advising Hawaiians to seek immediate shelter from an incoming ballistic missile were sent in error when someone "pushed the wrong button", officials say. Shortly after 8am on Saturday (early Sunday morning NZ time), several alarmed H
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Hawaii officials mistakenly warn of inbound missileSat, 13 Jan 2018 20:19:00 +0100.

A Hawaii Civil Defense Warning device, which sounds an alert siren during natural disasters, is seen in Honolulu in November 2017. A report that month said nearly 93 percent of the state's sirens worked properly. ( BY STAFF AND WIRE REPORT
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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),