M 5.1 in Tonga on 05 Jul 2017 23:29 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 1116326
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.8546 , -174.053
Event Date: 05 Jul 2017 23:29 UTC
05 Jul 2017 11:29 Local
Exposed Population:
About 300 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Jul 2017 23:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000973p Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 322 | About casualties: 25 | Last hour: 0

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Escape from TokyoSun, 09 Jul 2017 19:38:00 +0200.

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Flutwelle am Gletscher erfasste Vater und SohnSun, 09 Jul 2017 16:06:00 +0200.

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Grandes conciertos que han unido famosas voces por una causaSun, 09 Jul 2017 14:54:00 +0200.

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