M 6.2 in Fiji on 26 Jan 2019 19:56 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 1168958
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 579.11 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.1404 , -178.8621
Event Date: 26 Jan 2019 19:56 UTC
27 Jan 2019 07:56 Local
Exposed Population:
About 900 people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jan 2019 20:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us2000j98z 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 9 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Pacific regionWed, 30 Jan 2019 04:25:00 +0100.

Natural disasters ranging from cyclones to floods, droughts and earthquakes frequently occur in the Pacific region. The pacific island countries (including Papua New Guinea, Fiji Islands, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands and Vanuatu) rank amon
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Magnitude 6.2 quake strikes near FijiSun, 27 Jan 2019 10:03:00 +0100.

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit near the Pacific island nation of Fiji just before 8:00 local time on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. Shortly after the area felt another smaller tremor which registered 5.2 magnitude. Both earthquakes
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6.2-magnitude earthquake hits near FijiSun, 27 Jan 2019 03:42:00 +0100.

A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit near the Pacific island nation of Fiji just before 8:00 local time on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey said, Trend reported citing Xinhua. Shortly after the area felt another smaller tremor which registered
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6.2-magnitude earthquake strikes Fiji islandSun, 27 Jan 2019 03:17:00 +0100.

. A 6.2-magnitude earthquake hit near the nation of Fiji just before 8:00 local time (2:30 am IST) on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said. Shortly after, the area felt another smaller tremor, which registered 5.2 magnitude. The earthqua
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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), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), INFORM (4), USGS (2), NOAA (1),