M 4.6 in South Of Fiji Islands on 25 Dec 2021 13:42 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 1303369
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 503.74 Km
Lat/Lon: -24.3884 , -179.974
Event Date: 25 Dec 2021 13:42 UTC
25 Dec 2021 01:42 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 25 Dec 2021 14:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000gf8b 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

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),