M 4.6 in South Of Fiji Islands on 14 Jan 2018 00:54 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 1130912
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 480.55 Km
Lat/Lon: -25.9748 , 179.9553
Event Date: 14 Jan 2018 00:54 UTC
14 Jan 2018 12:54 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Jan 2018 01:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000cjeb Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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3:34 Expert Calls Caribbean to Strengthen Tsunami Alert SystemTue, 16 Jan 2018 21:49:00 +0100.

16 de enero de 2018, 15:34 Kingston, Jan 16 (Prensa Latina) The head the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) Ronald Jackson called today to strengthen the tsunami alert systems in the region, according to reports by the J
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Senator Marco Rubio on DACA and a government shutdownTue, 16 Jan 2018 20:38:00 +0100.

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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.
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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),