M 4.8 in Tonga Islands Region on 16 Oct 2017 23:52 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 1124030
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.8259 , -175.6168
Event Date: 16 Oct 2017 23:52 UTC
16 Oct 2017 11:52 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Oct 2017 04:17 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000at5i 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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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

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),