M 4.7 in Fiji on 24 Oct 2020 04:59 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 1240677
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 589.68 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.068 , -178.434
Event Date: 24 Oct 2020 04:59 UTC
24 Oct 2020 16:59 Local
Exposed Population:
About 3000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Oct 2020 05:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ccfj Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 8 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

October 2020 Global Earthquake Report / VolcanoDiscoverySat, 10 Oct 2020 22:24:00 +0200.

Saturday 10 October 2020 18:00 PM | Posted by: Earthquake Monitor. Earthquakes worldwide above 5 degrees during October 2020. Jump to the Daily Reports for October 2020: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 summary: 5 earthquakes 6.0+, 44
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Terremoto de 6,0 sacude el Pacífico al este de las islas FiyiTue, 06 Oct 2020 18:58:00 +0200.

Un terremoto de magnitud 6,0 sacudió este martes las aguas del Pacífico al este de Fiyi, sin que las autoridades informaran inicialmente de víctimas o daños materiales, ni se emitiera por el momento una alerta por tsunami. El Servicio Geoló
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Un terremoto de magnitud 6,0 sacude el Pacífico al este de las islas F ... Tue, 06 Oct 2020 14:52:00 +0200.

BANGKOK.- Un terremoto de magnitud 6,0 sacudió este martes las aguas del Pacífico al este de Fiyi, sin que las autoridades informaran inicialmente de víctimas o daños materiales, ni se emitiera por el momento una alerta por tsunami. El Serv
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Un terremoto de magnitud 6.0 sacude el Pacífico al este de las islas F ... Tue, 06 Oct 2020 14:38:00 +0200.

EL NUEVO DIARIO, BANGKOK. – Un terremoto de magnitud 6.0 sacudió este martes las aguas del Pacífico al este de Fiyi, sin que las autoridades informaran inicialmente de víctimas o daños materiales, ni se emitiera por el momento una alerta po
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),