M 5.7 in Fiji on 17 Dec 2021 20:02 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 1302195
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 557.52 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.9438 , -178.5011
Event Date: 17 Dec 2021 20:02 UTC
18 Dec 2021 08:02 Local
Exposed Population:
6 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 17 Dec 2021 20:23 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gd7w Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),