M 4.5 in Fiji on 20 Sep 2021 05:51 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 1286401
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 556.21 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.4578 , 179.1657
Event Date: 20 Sep 2021 05:51 UTC
20 Sep 2021 17:51 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 20 Sep 2021 06:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000fctj 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 259 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Science The Lost Tale of an 18th-Century Tsunami, as Told by Trees Aut ... 2021-09-24T02:45+0200.

One night in late January 1700, two tectonic plates running along the Pacific Northwest coast released the tension they had accumulated during a centuries-long tête-à-tête. In a tectonic roar, the Juan de Fuca plate slipped past the North A
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Rare species in Fukushima raise hopes for end to radiation rumors Sept ... 2021-09-24T00:17+0200.

SOMA, Fukushima Prefecture--Many rare and threatened species are thriving in swamps and rice paddies in coastal areas of Fukushima Prefecture, raising hopes in the agricultural industry for an end to negative rumors about radiation contamin
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Mexico: Magnitude-5.6 earthquake occurs in Gulf of California offshore ... 2021-09-23T20:49+0200.

Event. A magnitude-5.6 earthquake occurred in Mexico's Gulf of California offshore Sinaloa State at around 10:47 Sept. 23. The epicenter was about 142 km (88 miles) southwest of the town of Empaque Tarriba, Sinaloa State. The tremor occurre
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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),