M 6.5 in South Of Fiji Islands on 16 Sep 2018 21:11 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 1156829
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.5M
Depth: 569.97 Km
Lat/Lon: -25.4526 , 178.2198
Event Date: 16 Sep 2018 21:11 UTC
17 Sep 2018 09:11 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Sep 2018 21:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us2000hfjk Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 earthquake 1 Max wave realtime 0m  
  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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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 (84), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (3), INFORM (2), USGS (2), NOAA (1),