M 4.6 in Fiji on 22 Nov 2020 03:55 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 1244656
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 560.32 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.1124 , -178.1481
Event Date: 22 Nov 2020 03:55 UTC
22 Nov 2020 16:55 Local
Exposed Population:
About 2000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 Nov 2020 04:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000crdt Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),