M 5.6 in Fiji on 21 Feb 2019 06:34 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 1171480
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 616.55 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.8603 , -178.8272
Event Date: 21 Feb 2019 06:34 UTC
21 Feb 2019 18:34 Local
Exposed Population:
About 900 people within 100km
Inserted at: 21 Feb 2019 06:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000jkzu Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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

World: Humanitarian Assistance in Review: East Asia and the Pacific | ... Fri, 08 Feb 2019 01:31:00 +0100.

Recurrent drought, earthquakes, floods, typhoons, and volcanoes present significant challenges to vulnerable populations in the East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) region. Some countries also face civil unrest and associated humanitarian impact
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World: A year in training: 2018Tue, 05 Feb 2019 14:59:00 +0100.

101 examples of logistics capacity building across the globe. How does a seven-day earthquake simulation sound to you? Like to learn more about emergency logistics? How about the importance of information management in humanitarian logistic
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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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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),