Overall Green Volcanic eruption for Fournaise, Piton de la
in France

Event summary

GREEN alert: The Fournaise, Piton de la Volcanic eruption may have a low humanitarian impact, based on the magnitude of the eruption, the exposed population and its coping capacity..

GDACS ID VO 1000052
Name: Fournaise, Piton de la (233020)
Lat/Lon: -21.24 , 55.71
Event Date: 19 Sep 2022 UTC
Exposed Population 30km: No people affected
Exposed Population 100km: No people affected
Max Volc. Explosivity Index VEI: 5
Population Exposure Index PEI: 5
Inserted at: 21 Sep 2022 09:53 UTC

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (31), INGV (2), INFORM (2), (1), JSR (1),