M 5.9 in South Of Fiji Islands on 06 Jan 2023 11:52 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 1353299
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 505.104 Km
Lat/Lon: -24.7533 , -179.948
Event Date: 06 Jan 2023 11:52 UTC
05 Jan 2023 23:52 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 06 Jan 2023 12:13 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000j2ig Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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),