M 5.4 in South Of Fiji Islands on 19 Oct 2018 15:20 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 1159437
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 496.67 Km
Lat/Lon: -24.7549 , -179.8678
Event Date: 19 Oct 2018 15:20 UTC
19 Oct 2018 03:20 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Oct 2018 15:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000hehh Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 350 | About casualties: 60 | Last hour: 0

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),