M 4.7 in Fiji on 26 Jun 2024 14:50 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 1434789
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 529.1 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.3304 , -177.965
Event Date: 26 Jun 2024 14:50 UTC
26 Jun 2024 02:50 Local
Exposed Population:
3 thousand in MMI I
Inserted at: 26 Jun 2024 15:07 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000n89k Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),