M 5.9 in Fiji on 01 May 2018 19:47 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 1141772
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 578.51 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.9839 , -177.9731
Event Date: 01 May 2018 19:47 UTC
01 May 2018 07:47 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 May 2018 20:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000dvii Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 7 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

West PapuaFri, 27 Apr 2018 04:57:00 +0200.

A programme called 'Bright Indonesia' has been launched by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources to increase the electrification rate in the country's eastern provinces. A former West Papuan journalist has recently finished a novel
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Think safety first please everyoneThu, 19 Apr 2018 23:33:00 +0200.

It has been one of them weeks for Samoa. A rare one where we’ve hardly seen rays of the sunlight, which are synonymous with our tropical environment. Instead, it has been a week of heavy rain and downpours so that all we see in Samoa today
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Feed aggregatorSat, 14 Apr 2018 04:48:00 +0200.

A first visit by the Myanmar Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, Win Myat Aye, to Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Cox's Bazar took place on 11 April. The purpose of the visit was to meet with Rohingya refugees and speed up the
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A woman's tale of survival clinging to a bed as deadly floods swept th ... Fri, 13 Apr 2018 02:34:00 +0200.

A woman and her son survived Fiji's treacherous floods this week floating on a bed as it rose to within inches of the ceiling in their home. Their story of survival after back to back rain and cyclones in April is being described as miracul
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),