M 5.6 in Tonga on 03 Jun 2018 00:48 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 1144866
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.4045 , -173.6821
Event Date: 03 Jun 2018 00:48 UTC
02 Jun 2018 12:48 Local
Exposed Population: About 20000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Jun 2018 01:10 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000ehmb Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 13 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Volcán de Fuego de Guatemala: por qué la mayor parte de los terremotos ... Tue, 05 Jun 2018 05:07:00 +0200.

Derechos de autor de la imagen Reuters Image caption El gobierno de Guatemala pidió a las habitantes de poblaciones cercanas al volcán alejarse de los ríos que arrastran sedimentos y rocas. El Cinturón del Fuego del Pacífico nos ha vuelto a
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¿Por qué hay tantas erupciones volcánicas en el Cinturón de Fuego del ... Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:19:00 +0200.

El Cinturón del Fuego del Pacífico nos ha vuelto a recordar por qué es considerada el área geográfica con la mayor actividad sísmica y volcánica del mundo. Y es que el Volcán de Fuego de Guatemala, país situado en ese cinturón, entró en eru
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Volcán de Fuego de Guatemala: por qué la mayor parte de los terremotos ... Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:14:00 +0200.

Luego se dobla a la altura de las Islas Aleutianas, en el norte del océano Pacífico, entre Alaska y la península de Kamchatka. El área del cinturón comprende la mayor zona volcánica y sísmica del mundo. (Foto: Thinkstock) Y baja después par
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5.6 magnitude earthquake strikes near TongaSun, 03 Jun 2018 05:34:00 +0200.

A 5.6 magnitude earthquake has struck near Tonga in an upper island in the Ha'apai group this afternoon. A stock photo of a recording of an earthquake's seismic waves. The quake, 10 kilometres in depth, hit the area at 12.48pm. The regio
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),