M 4.8 in Tonga on 15 May 2015 03:42 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 1054894
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 71.42 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.7396 , -174.4858
Event Date: 15 May 2015 03:42 UTC
15 May 2015 16:42 Local
Exposed Population:
About 17991 people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 May 2015 04:07 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
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: 279 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Taiwans space programme offers tsunami satellite images to aid reliefTue, 19 May 2015 02:14:00 +0200.

Taiwan's space programme offers tsunami satellite images to aid relief. Space Daily Tuesday 19th May, 2015. Taiwan's national space programme offered Wednesday its satellite images of the damage caused by powerful tsunamis that ravaged Asia
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Chilenos tienen contratados 57 millones de segurosTue, 19 May 2015 01:22:00 +0200.

Santiago, 18 de Mayo 2015.- Los chilenos tienen contratados más de 57 millones de seguros, 14 instrumentos por familia en promedio, dijo hoy el presidente de la Asociación de Aseguradores de Chile (AACH), José Manuel Camposano. El directivo
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"La Roca" envía emotivo saludo a Bomberos de Chile: "Ustedes son los v ... Mon, 18 May 2015 22:47:00 +0200.

El actor Dwayne Johnson actúa en la cinta La falla de San Andrés, y a raíz de ese estreno saludó a los voluntarios chilenos. "Muchas gracias por su labor", dijo. "Ustedes son los verdaderos héroes. Gracias" , así termina el emotivo saludo
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PTSD: Not Just in Soldiers, And Not Just in MenMon, 18 May 2015 21:24:00 +0200.

By: Dr. Meir Kryger, MD, FRCPC, Yale School of Medicine, editor of Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, and author of iGuide to Sleep and Sleep and Be Well on Psychology Today, for the Society for Women's Health Interdisciplinary Netw
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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),