Overall Green Earthquake alert in Fiji on 18 Aug 2013 13:23 UTC

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M 4.8 in Fiji on 18 Aug 2013 13:23 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 1002756
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.8M
Depth:	570.9 Km
Lat/Lon:	-18.5434 , -177.9196
Event Date:	18 Aug 2013 13:23 UTC 18 Aug 2013 01:23 Local
Exposed Population:	About 3564 people within 100km
Inserted at:	18 Aug 2013 14:54 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
usb000j5vl	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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 411 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

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Japonia: Wyciek skażonej wody to "poważny incydent"Wed, 21 Aug 2013 07:14:00 +0200.

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Japão considera grave vazamento de água radioativa de FukushimaWed, 21 Aug 2013 07:07:00 +0200.

Água contaminada pode chegar ao Oceano Pacífico. 300 toneladas de água radioativa vazaram da Central Atômica.

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),

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