M 5.7 in South Of Fiji Islands on 27 Jul 2022 16:16 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 1332312
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 529.1 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.5007 , -179.6528
Event Date: 27 Jul 2022 16:16 UTC
27 Jul 2022 04:16 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 27 Jul 2022 16:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000i5y9 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 234 | About casualties: 49 | Last hour: 0

Early morning earthquake felt Sunday2022-07-31T15:05+0200.

ELGIN, S.C. (WIS) - An early morning earthquake was felt in the Midlands Sunday. A 1.7 magnitude earthquake was reported near Elgin at around 1:24 a.m. It had a depth of roughly one mile below the surface located 3 miles to the east south e
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A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Acehjaya2022-07-31T09:09+0200.

Meulaboh, Aceh (ANTARA) – A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck Aceh Jaya district in Aceh province at 10:03 am local time on Sunday, but was unlikely to trigger a subsequent tsunami. “There was no possibility that tremors could cause a tsunami
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5.6-magnitude earthquake jolts Aceh Jaya2022-07-31T08:27+0200.

Meulaboh, Aceh (ANTARA) - A 5.6-magnitude earthquake jolted Aceh Jaya District, Aceh Province, on Sunday at 10:03 a.m. local time but it did not have the potential to trigger a subsequent tsunami. "The tremor did not have the potential to c
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World News | Iran Flood: Death Toll Touches 53, Rescuers Hunt for Miss ... 2022-07-31T08:09+0200.

Tehran [Iran], July 31 (ANI): As many as 53 people have been killed in the recent flash floods that wreaked havoc across Iran following heavy rainfall. Mehdi Vallipour, head of the Relief and Rescue Organization of the Iranian Red Crescent
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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),