M 4.8 in Fiji Islands Region on 30 Dec 2020 06:18 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 1249649
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 634.28 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.0592 , -177.9374
Event Date: 30 Dec 2020 06:18 UTC
29 Dec 2020 18:18 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Dec 2020 06:35 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000d49y 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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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),