M 5.3 in Tonga on 14 Feb 2016 07:10 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 1080603
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 18.99 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.3955 , -171.8211
Event Date: 14 Feb 2016 07:10 UTC
13 Feb 2016 20:10 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Feb 2016 07:41 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 288 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

The Asahi Shimbun AJW (ENGLISH)Thu, 18 Feb 2016 05:56:00 +0100.

Asahi Shimbun readers feel that foreigners should shoulder the most responsibility for creating a harmonious multicultural society in Japan, the results of a second online... KYOTO--Conductor Seiji Ozawa showered praise on his orchestra, s
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5 DPJThu, 18 Feb 2016 05:35:00 +0100.

El gobernador Alfredo Cornejo convocó a un docente universitario especialista en derecho societario para reorganizar la Dirección de Persona Jurídica (DPJ). Se llama Raúl Javier Romero y no tiene pertenencia política. Miles de legajos amont
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Moderate Earthquake Hits Taiwan ThursdayThu, 18 Feb 2016 04:51:00 +0100.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18 (Bernama) -- A moderate earthquake, measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, struck Yungkang, Taiwan, early Thursday. According to the Meteorological Service Department, the quake in Yungkang, 1,835km northeast of Kudat, Sab
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Video: Jorge Alis parodió el documental de Bachelet con un falso tease ... Thu, 18 Feb 2016 04:50:00 +0100.

El humorista argentino Jorge Alis realizó una parodia del polémico documental que La Moneda prepara sobre el gobierno de Michelle Bachelet y posteó en un cuenta de Facebook un falso teaser de la producción, donde se recalcan algunas de las
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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),