M 5.2 in Tonga Islands on 27 Nov 2014 15:05 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 1043907
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 55.84 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.14 , -175.41
Event Date: 27 Nov 2014 15:05 UTC
28 Nov 2014 04:05 Local
Exposed Population:
About 88940 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Nov 2014 15:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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Dr Tiziana Rossetto, an expert in earthquake engineering at University College London, has created a tsunami simulator after seeing the chaos caused by the tsunami that devastated Sri Lanka in 2004. Her tsunami generator at the Wallingford
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From invisibility cloaks to making graphene in a blender: Scientists s.. 12/1/2014 1:43:00 PM.

Dr Tiziana Rossetto, an expert in earthquake engineering at University College London, has created a tsunami simulator after seeing the chaos caused by the tsunami that devastated Sri Lanka in 2004. Her tsunami generator at the Wallingford
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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),