M 5.5 in South Of Fiji Islands on 24 Apr 2018 21:57 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 1141177
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 529.99 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.9169 , 179.8337
Event Date: 24 Apr 2018 21:57 UTC
25 Apr 2018 09:57 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Apr 2018 22:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000drm0 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 183 | About casualties: 15 | Last hour: 0

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Three C'bean islands rattled by earthquakeSat, 28 Apr 2018 19:15:00 +0200.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) — At least three Caribbean countries were rattled by an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 late on Friday night, the Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the St Augustine campus of the University of
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Three Caribbean islands rattled by earthquakeSat, 28 Apr 2018 17:36:00 +0200.

PORT OF SPAIN At least three Caribbean countries were rattled by an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.5 late on Friday night, the Trinidad-based Seismic Research Centre (SRC) of the St Augustine campus of the University of the West Indies (U
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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),