Overall Green Earthquake alert in Fiji on 08 Nov 2025 04:15 UTC

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M 5.6 in Fiji on 08 Nov 2025 04:15 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 1509294
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.6M
Depth:	495.3 Km
Lat/Lon:	-18.5429 , -177.7963
Event Date:	08 Nov 2025 04:15 UTC 07 Nov 2025 16:15 Local
Exposed Population:	2 thousand in MMI II
Inserted at:	08 Nov 2025 04:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake (Shakemap)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000rm7z	Scaled population (raster)	0
	C1 shakemap	0
	C2 shakemap	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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Latest media headlines

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),

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