M 5.5 in Fiji on 22 Jan 2020 00:57 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 1202754
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.4959 , 177.8234
Event Date: 22 Jan 2020 00:57 UTC
22 Jan 2020 12:57 Local
Exposed Population: Less then 100 people in MMI V
About 12000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Jan 2020 01:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
3.4 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60007cim Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.8  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),