M 6.6 in Fiji on 01 Sep 2019 15:54 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 1188009
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 591 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.3912 , -178.5508
Event Date: 01 Sep 2019 15:54 UTC
02 Sep 2019 03:54 Local
Exposed Population:
About 900 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Sep 2019 13:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us70005axg Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 earthquake 1 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 9 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

01 September 2019 -Strong Earthquake in Fiji Islands Region on 01 Sept ... Mon, 02 Sep 2019 05:03:00 +0200.

JMM/POCGN(O)/BK-23B Ruj. Kami: JMM.APL15/756/22/07 Jld.16(27) PRESS RELEASE Strong Earthquake in Fiji Islands Region A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.2 on the Richter scale occurred near Fiji Islands Region at 11:54pm (Malaysian Local Tim
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Fuerte terremoto en el Pacífico, entre las islas Fiyi y Tonga El sismo ... Sun, 01 Sep 2019 21:48:00 +0200.

Sídney, Australia. AFP.- Un fuerte terremoto se produjo en medio del océano Pacífico, entre las islas Fiyi y Tonga, este lunes por la madrugada (hora local), pero no hay riesgo de tsunami, informó el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (US
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Fuerte terremoto en el Pacífico, entre las islas Fiji y TongaSun, 01 Sep 2019 21:47:00 +0200.

Un fuerte terremoto se produjo en medio del océano Pacífico este lunes por la madrugada (hora local), pero no hay riesgo de tsunami, informó el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS). El sismo, cuyo epicentro se ubicó a 616 km de prof
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Fuerte terremoto entre las islas Fiyi y TongaSun, 01 Sep 2019 20:23:00 +0200.

Un fuerte terremoto se produjo en medio del océano Pacífico, entre las islas Fiyi y Tonga, este lunes por la madrugada (hora local), pero no hay riesgo de tsunami, informó el Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (Usgs). El sismo, cuyo epice
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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 (84), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), INFORM (4), USGS (2), NOAA (1),