M 4.5 in Fiji on 31 Jul 2020 10:48 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 1228318
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 528.53 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.8596 , -178.6882
Event Date: 31 Jul 2020 10:48 UTC
31 Jul 2020 22:48 Local
Exposed Population:
About 6000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jul 2020 11:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000b7dt Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),