M 4.8 in Fiji Islands Region on 05 Jan 2023 02:24 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 1353139
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 388.721 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.9652 , -177.1329
Event Date: 05 Jan 2023 02:24 UTC
04 Jan 2023 14:24 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 06 Jan 2023 01:40 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000j272 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),