M 4.8 in Fiji on 14 Jan 2024 00:50 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 1410620
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 550.8 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.2806 , -178.2674
Event Date: 14 Jan 2024 00:50 UTC
14 Jan 2024 12:50 Local
Exposed Population:
1 thousand in MMI I
Inserted at: 14 Jan 2024 01:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000m3kc Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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Light mag. 4.8 earthquake - Fiji Region on Sunday, Jan 14, 2024, at 12 ... 2024-01-14T02:10+0100.

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BEIJING, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted Fiji Islands Region at 0238 GMT on Saturday, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 595.5 km, was initially determined to
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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),