M 4.6 in Fiji Islands Region on 29 May 2022 17:49 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 1324482
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 302.89 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.9883 , -177.8945
Event Date: 29 May 2022 17:49 UTC
29 May 2022 05:49 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 29 May 2022 18:11 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000hdgk Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  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

Articles: 6 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

26 May 2022 -Strong Earthquake in Southeast of Loyalty Islands at 11.3 ... 2022-05-27T19:52+0200.

JABATAN METEOROLOGI MALAYSIA KEMENTERIAN ALAM SEKITAR DAN AIR JALAN SULTAN Telefon : 603-7967 8000 46667 PETALING JAYA Faksimili : 603-7957 8052 SELANGOR DARUL EHSAN E-mel : seismo@met.gov.my MALAYSIA Laman Web : www.met.gov.my JMM/POCGN(O)
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MIL-OSI China: No tsunami threat as Fijians feel earthquake2022-05-14T04:12+0200.

Source: China State Council Information Office. There is no threat of a tsunami after people felt an earthquake in the central part of Fiji on Saturday morning, news reports said. At around 7:40 a.m. local time, people living in Fiji’s capi
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No tsunami threat as Fijians feel earthquake2022-05-13T23:57+0200.

SUVA, May 14 (Xinhua) -- There is no threat of a tsunami after people felt an earthquake in the central part of Fiji on Saturday morning, news reports said. At around 7:40 a.m. local time, people living in Fiji's capital city of Suva felt t
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No tsunami threat as Fijians feel earthquake2022-05-13T23:44+0200.

SUVA, May 14 (Xinhua) -- There is no threat of a tsunami after people felt an earthquake in the central part of Fiji on Saturday morning, news reports said. At around 7:40 a.m.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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),