M 4.6 in Fiji Islands Region on 20 Apr 2017 09:52 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 1110718
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 492.22 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.6042 , -178.6814
Event Date: 20 Apr 2017 09:52 UTC
19 Apr 2017 21:52 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Apr 2017 10:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008j7h Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 176 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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الرئيس التنفيذي للهيئة العُمانية للأعمال الخيرية: تأثرنا بشكل طفيف بال ... Mon, 24 Apr 2017 06:53:00 +0200.

مسقط - سعيد الهاشمي تصوير - إسماعيل الفارسي أكد الرئيس التنفيذي للهيئة العمانية للأعمال الخيرية علي بن إبراهيم بن شنون الرئيسي في تصريح صحفي لوسائل الإعلام أن: الهيئة العمانية للأعمال الخيرية تحمل رسالة العمل الإنساني باسم السلطنة حكومة وشع
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Moderate Earthquake Hits JavaMon, 24 Apr 2017 06:45:00 +0200.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 24 (Bernama) -- A moderate earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale hit the Indonesian island of Java at 2.01 am, today. In a statement, the Malaysian Meteorological Department said the location of the quake was 1,0
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Jane Bowron: Change to landlines not good news for allMon, 24 Apr 2017 02:57:00 +0200.

OPINION : Spark's announcement that they are changing landline technology will have many older customers fretting about having to come to grips with the dreaded cellphone. The company's plan to phase out the PSTN (Public Switched Telephone
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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),