M 5.5 in South Of Fiji Islands on 23 Jan 2021 11:47 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 1252808
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 424.62 Km
Lat/Lon: -24.3296 , -179.5053
Event Date: 23 Jan 2021 11:47 UTC
22 Jan 2021 23:47 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jan 2021 16:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d2nr Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),