M 5.6 in Fiji on 27 Nov 2019 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 1195264
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 570.42 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.1212 , -179.4792
Event Date: 27 Nov 2019 10:00 UTC
26 Nov 2019 22:00 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Nov 2019 10:19 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Fiji)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70006dnx 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 10 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Feed aggregatorSat, 30 Nov 2019 04:59:00 +0100.

The number of affected people has risen to 250,000 after widespread floods and flash floods hit several parts of the country, Djibouti City in particular. Up to 5,000 people that were evacuated are now returning to their homes, but 100,000
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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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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),