M 6.9 in Fiji on 09 Oct 2021 10:58 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 1289284
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.9M
Depth: 520.42 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.1717 , 174.5286
Event Date: 09 Oct 2021 10:58 UTC
09 Oct 2021 22:58 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 18 Oct 2021 15:26 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000ft9g 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 266 | About casualties: 34 | Last hour: 0

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Green jobs2021-10-13T06:54+0200.

U nder the Billion-Tree Tsunami Project, Pakistan plans to plant one billion trees by 2023 to regenerate degraded lands and, in the process, to provide the much-needed employment to its burgeoning population. The country has a mere 5% fores
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Strong quake strikes off Greece's Crete2021-10-13T00:58+0200.

The quake — the second strong tremor to hit Greece’s largest island in just over two weeks — struck at 0924 GMT with an epicentre in the sea 405 kilometres (250 miles) southeast of Athens and 24 kilometres from the village of Zakros, the Ob
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6.3-magnitude quake strikes off...2021-10-13T00:22+0200.

It comes two weeks after a strong 5.8-magnitude quake killed one person, injured 10 and damaged buildings on Crete. A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the Greek island of Crete Tuesday, the Athens Observatory said, with initial
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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),