M 5.8 in Tonga Islands on 19 May 2022 09:23 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 1323134
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 113 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.2914 , -173.8381
Event Date: 19 May 2022 09:23 UTC
18 May 2022 21:23 Local
Exposed Population: 1 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 19 May 2022 09:48 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000hm95 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (48), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),