M 6.6 in Tonga on 28 May 2016 05:38 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 1087117
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 416.79 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.0213 , -178.1606
Event Date: 28 May 2016 05:38 UTC
27 May 2016 17:38 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 28 May 2016 06:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
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Latest media headlines

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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 (81), (5), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), INFORM (4), USGS (2), NOAA (1),