M 5.2 in Tonga Islands on 18 Dec 2014 07:47 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 1045342
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 242.04 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.6538 , -175.7858
Event Date: 18 Dec 2014 07:47 UTC
17 Dec 2014 19:47 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1858 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Dec 2014 08:10 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 146 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

VIDEO. Tsunami : le témoignage d'une survivanteThu, 18 Dec 2014 22:31:00 +0100.

Fin décembre, on commémorera les dix ans du tsunami en Asie du Sud-Est. Une équipe de France 2 a recueilli le témoignage de Flore Titeux, une survivante qui avait 26 ans au moment des faits. Francetv info. Mis à jour le 18/12/2014 | 22:22
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VIDEO. Tsunami : le témoignage d'une survivanteThu, 18 Dec 2014 22:26:00 +0100.

Fin décembre, on commémorera les dix ans du tsunami en Asie du Sud-Est. Une équipe de France 2 a recueilli le témoignage de Flore Titeux, une survivante qui avait 26 ans au moment des faits. Francetv info. Mis à jour le 18/12/2014 | 22:22
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Priest's Facebook plea saves woman in labour's lifeThu, 18 Dec 2014 22:01:00 +0100.

The stillborn baby could not be delivered and Manu's only hope was an eight hour walk away. That was when Catholic priest Martin We-en turned to Facebook. "A young mother is in labour now for 4 days now since Friday," he posted. "The baby
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Work on Seismic Research Station begins shortlyThu, 18 Dec 2014 21:50:00 +0100.

A team from the UWI Seismic Research Centre in Trinidad will be back on island shortly to complete work on an earthquake monitoring station in Bethesda. For the past month, work has been ongoing on the station that feeds into the Caribbean
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),