M 4.9 in South Of Fiji Islands on 08 Mar 2014 21:06 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 1027230
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 522.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.9628 , -179.6668
Event Date: 08 Mar 2014 21:06 UTC
08 Mar 2014 09:06 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Mar 2014 21:26 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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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 (40), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),