M 6.1 in South Of Fiji Islands on 14 Nov 2022 05:04 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 1346202
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 627.427 Km
Lat/Lon: -26.0418 , 178.2262
Event Date: 14 Nov 2022 05:04 UTC
14 Nov 2022 17:04 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 14 Nov 2022 05:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000ipkb Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 269 | About casualties: 14 | Last hour: 0

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Ex-Michigan health chief asks court to end Flint water saga2022-11-17T19:29+0100.

A strong earthquake shook a sparsely populated patch of the West Texas desert Thursday, causing tremors that were felt as far away as the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez. National Weather Service meteorologist Jim DeBerry says the magnitude 5
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World News Quick Take 2022-11-18 MEXICO Dog leads police to grisly fin ... 2022-11-17T17:17+0100.

MEXICO. Dog leads police to grisly find. Police in the country’s south on Wednesday said that they found a dismembered human body after spotting a dog trotting down the street with a human arm in its mouth. It was the third time in the past
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UAE residents report feeling tremors as 5.3-magnitude quake hits Iran2022-11-17T16:38+0100.

An earthquake that hit the south of Iran on Thursday evening was ‘felt slightly’ in the UAE. However, the 5.3-magnitude quake did not have any effect in the emirates, the National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) confirmed. The authority recorde
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),