M 5.7 in Tonga on 20 Aug 2018 00:43 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 1154374
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 92.74 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.9028 , -172.5586
Event Date: 20 Aug 2018 00:43 UTC
19 Aug 2018 12:43 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Aug 2018 01:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000gdmg Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 106 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Los científicos han advertido en varias ocasiones que la actividad en este cinturón que recorre las costas del océano —Oceanía, Asia, América del Norte, Central y del Sur —, cuyo lecho se halla sobre placas tectónicas en fricción, que causa
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Earthquake WARNING: Ring of Fire unrest could lead to BIG ONE in Calif ... Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:32:00 +0200.

The Ring of Fire is the largest and most active fault line in the world, stretching from New Zealand, all around the east coast of Asia, over to Canada and the USA and all the way down to the southern tip of South America and causes more th
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Tala I VaifanuaTue, 21 Aug 2018 14:09:00 +0200.

5 TOA O SAMOA ULUFALE I LE SGT.MAJOR ACADEMY FORT BLISS. O se tala fiafia mai le setete o Texas ona ua mafai ona filifilia le to'alima o nisi o alo o le atunu'u o tautua i le USArmy, ma ua mae'a atoa le ulua'i vaiaso o le latou a'oa'oga fa'
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Magnitude 8.2 quake strikes in the Pacific, no damage expected: USGSMon, 20 Aug 2018 05:55:00 +0200.

A massive quake of magnitude 8.2 struck in the Pacific Ocean close to Fiji and Tonga on Sunday but it was very deep and did not trigger a tsunami, the US Geological Survey and US Tsunami Warning Center said. The quake was 347.7 miles (559.5
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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),