M 6 in Tonga on 20 May 2015 00:30 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 1055334
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 180.31 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.3027 , -175.4608
Event Date: 20 May 2015 00:30 UTC
19 May 2015 12:30 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1645 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 May 2015 00:53 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 389 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),