M 4.7 in South Of Fiji Islands on 02 Mar 2023 16:42 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 1362789
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 514.89 Km
Lat/Lon: -24.2573 , -179.9222
Event Date: 02 Mar 2023 16:42 UTC
02 Mar 2023 04:42 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 02 Mar 2023 17:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000jguv 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),