M 5.4 in Fiji on 16 Apr 2021 16:40 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 1265006
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 578.57 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.7242 , -179.3719
Event Date: 16 Apr 2021 16:40 UTC
16 Apr 2021 04:40 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Apr 2021 22:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000e24m 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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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),