M 4.9 in Fiji on 24 Apr 2017 23:25 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 1111093
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 86.07 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.8262 , 173.2971
Event Date: 24 Apr 2017 23:25 UTC
25 Apr 2017 11:25 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 24 Apr 2017 23:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10008kf1 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),