M 5.6 in Fiji on 12 Sep 2020 02:37 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 1234041
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 556.57 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.8809 , -178.0547
Event Date: 12 Sep 2020 02:37 UTC
12 Sep 2020 14:37 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Sep 2020 02:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000bm9g Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 8 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Body found in search for missing British diplomat who vanished while o ... Tue, 01 Sep 2020 01:40:00 +0200.

A body has been found in the search for a missing British diplomat who vanished while out jogging over three months ago. Richard Morris, the UK’s former ambassador to Nepal, disappeared after he set out from his home in Bentley, Hampshire,
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),