M 5.6 in Fiji on 17 Dec 2024 22:10 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 1458238
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 535.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.1976 , -178.2797
Event Date: 17 Dec 2024 22:10 UTC
18 Dec 2024 10:10 Local
Exposed Population: 4 thousand in MMI II
Inserted at: 17 Dec 2024 22:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
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GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000nznb Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

Moderate mag. 4.4 earthquake - Fiji: New Zealand on Saturday, Dec 21, .. 12/21/2024 9:06:00 PM.

Seismic station: Raoul, Kermadec Islands (RAO/IU network) | Distance from quake: 625 km / 389 mi | Show on map Station Info Seismogram (vertical component) around time of quake. Thin dotted red line indicates time of quake. Seismic waves ar
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WFP flies critical supplies and personnel to earthquake hit Vanuatu 12/21/2024 2:13:00 PM.

SUVA, FIJI A WFP-chartered flight landed in Vanuatu’s capital Port Vila on Saturday bringing humanitarian personnel and much needed telecoms equipment and medical supplies to support the island state following a devastating 7.3 magnitude ea
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Fiji Airways to resume service to Vanuatu from Sunday 12/21/2024 6:39:00 AM.

Fiji Airways will start flying to Vanuatu from tomorrow and has scheduled two flights to the recent earthquake hit country. The first flight departs at 11:30am on a Boeing 737 and at 2:30pm, an ATR72 plane will be used for the second servic
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Vanuatu earthquake: Last repatriation from Port Vila, water in short s.. 12/21/2024 2:08:00 AM.

Boarding has started for New Zealand''s last repatriation flight from Port Vila after Passengers heading home on the RNZAF Boeing 757 on Saturday afternoon include stranded tourists of various nationalities, returning disaster response offi
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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

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),