M 4.9 in Fiji on 23 Apr 2024 22:42 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 1425577
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 547.1 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.5822 , -178.8839
Event Date: 23 Apr 2024 22:42 UTC
24 Apr 2024 10:42 Local
Exposed Population:
8 thousand in MMI I
Inserted at: 23 Apr 2024 23:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mtan 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 403 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 32

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Un séisme de magnitude 6,9 secoue le Japon, aucune alerte au tsunami n ... 2024-04-27T21:58+0200.

Un séisme de magnitude 6,9 ​​secoue le Japon, aucune alerte au tsunami n’est émise. Un séisme de magnitude 6,9 ​​secoue le Japon, aucune alerte au tsunami n’est émise Un tremblement de terre a encore secoué le Japon samedi (27/4/2024). (S
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Magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes off Indonesia’s Java island: Authorit ... 2024-04-27T21:52+0200.

JAKARTA - A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Java island on April 27, the country’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG) reported. The quake, which the United States Geological Survey (USGS) re
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Magnitude 6.5 earthquake strikes off Indonesia’s Java island: Authorit ... 2024-04-27T21:48+0200.

JAKARTA - A magnitude-6.5 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia’s Java island on April 27, the country’s Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency (BMKG) reported. The quake, which the United States Geological Survey (USGS) re
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),