M 4.7 in Fiji Islands Region on 03 Jan 2017 15:41 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 1102417
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -20.1491 , -178.182
Event Date: 03 Jan 2017 15:41 UTC
04 Jan 2017 04:41 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Jan 2017 16:03 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007pgz Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (40), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),