M 4.5 in Fiji Islands Region on 14 Nov 2017 07:56 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 1126340
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 557.92 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.5112 , -178.7773
Event Date: 14 Nov 2017 07:56 UTC
13 Nov 2017 19:56 Local
Exposed Population:
About 900 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Nov 2017 08:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bn53 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 415 | About casualties: 27 | Last hour: 0

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AFP / Quito. Un sismo de 6,2 grados de magnitud remeció ayer a Ecuador, que el año pasado fue golpeado por un devastador terremoto que dejó 673 muertos, informó el Instituto Geofísico de Quito. El movimiento telúrico, que fue sentido en var
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),