M 4.9 in Tonga on 09 Jun 2016 13:37 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 1087857
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 40.91 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.9118 , -172.0624
Event Date: 09 Jun 2016 13:37 UTC
09 Jun 2016 02:37 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Jun 2016 14:06 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000633z 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: 341 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 0

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Nach Flutkatastrophe: Erster Schultag in Simbach am InnMon, 13 Jun 2016 12:57:00 +0200.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),