M 4.5 in South Of Fiji Islands on 01 Oct 2022 19:35 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 1340176
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 497.323 Km
Lat/Lon: -24.9307 , 179.8711
Event Date: 01 Oct 2022 19:35 UTC
02 Oct 2022 07:35 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 01 Oct 2022 21:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)
GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000iq2b Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),