M 6.5 in Fiji on 08 Nov 2019 10:44 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 1192842
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.5M
Depth: 582.92 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.9688 , -179.4911
Event Date: 08 Nov 2019 10:44 UTC
07 Nov 2019 22:44 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Nov 2019 11:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000693m Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 earthquake 1 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 15 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

CNMI Emergency Medical Team formedSun, 10 Nov 2019 19:58:00 +0100.

THE four-day training for the newly formed CNMI Emergency Medical Team culminated in an exercise that simulated real-time response to an earthquake/tsunami at the airport field on Friday. A small field clinic was set up, and emergency tria
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CNMI Emergency Medical Team formedSun, 10 Nov 2019 16:57:00 +0100.

THE four-day training for the newly formed CNMI Emergency Medical Team culminated in an exercise that simulated real-time response to an earthquake/tsunami at the airport field on Friday. A small field clinic was set up, and emergency triag
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08 November 2019-Strong Earthquake in Fiji Islands Region at 08 Novemb ... Sat, 09 Nov 2019 04:18:00 +0100.

JMM/POCGN(O)/BK-23B Ref.: JMM.APL15/756/22/07 Jld.16(35) PRESS RELEASE Strong Earthquake in Fiji Islands Region A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.0 on the Richter scale occurred near Fiji Islands Region at 6:44pm (Malaysian Local Time) on
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World: ECHO Factsheet – Pacific Region – November 2019Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:53:00 +0100.

Introduction. Natural disasters ranging from cyclones to floods, droughts and earthquakes frequently occur in the Pacific region. The pacific island countries (including Papua New Guinea, Fiji Islands, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, and Van
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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 (84), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), INFORM (4), USGS (2), NOAA (1),