M 5.7 in Fiji on 25 Jan 2018 10:41 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 1131888
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 620.51 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.7562 , -179.6446
Event Date: 25 Jan 2018 10:41 UTC
25 Jan 2018 22:41 Local
Exposed Population:
About 7000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Jan 2018 11:00 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.4 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000cp7l Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 335 | About casualties: 19 | Last hour: 0

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Reportan siete sismos en Centroamérica durante las últimas horasSun, 28 Jan 2018 00:04:00 +0100.

Redacción Central | 27/01/2018. Según un reporte sismológico difundido este sábado, durante las últimas horas fueron registrados siete temblores en la región centroamericana. En Nicaragua se registraron dos sismos. El mayor de ellos, de 2,8
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Fuerte sismo sacudió Panamá; otro más fue percibido en El Salvador hor ... Sat, 27 Jan 2018 23:47:00 +0100.

En horas de la tarde de este sábado 27 de enero, el Ministerio del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (MARN) informó sobre un fuerte sismo registrado en la zona costera de Panamá. Según el MARN , el sismo fue de magnitud 6.0 y se produjo a
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British Virgin Islands: Scientists Study The Impacts Of Irma On The Is ... Sat, 27 Jan 2018 22:44:00 +0100.

Researchers affiliated with the United States Geological Survey returned to Anegada this month to examine the environmental impacts of Hurricane Irma and to determine the connections to long-term storm and tsunami records. The four-member t
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),