M 5.6 in Fiji on 04 Jun 2024 10:00 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 1431672
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 586 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.9789 , -178.4487
Event Date: 04 Jun 2024 10:00 UTC
04 Jun 2024 22:00 Local
Exposed Population:
6 thousand in MMI&>=I
Inserted at: 04 Jun 2024 10:14 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mq7x Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

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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),