M 5.2 in Tonga on 06 Jul 2016 13:13 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 1089438
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.6197 , -173.7507
Event Date: 06 Jul 2016 13:13 UTC
07 Jul 2016 02:13 Local
Exposed Population:
About 17860 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Jul 2016 13:36 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100061af 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 182 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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Ein Bett im Kuhstall soll es nie mehr seinSun, 10 Jul 2016 07:07:00 +0200.

Verraten Sie uns eine kuriose Urlaubsanekdote? NOGRASEK: Eigentlich rede ich nicht viel über meine Reisen. Aber im Jemen ist mir etwas Kurioses passiert. Im Flugzeug lernte ich von meinem Sitznachbarn ein paar Brocken Arabisch. Das wollte i
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Frankenstein y el vampiro, mitos nacidos en la misma nocheSun, 10 Jul 2016 07:03:00 +0200.

Sentí el extraño agrado de ver cómo se unían en una sola historia, que yo presentía vagamente, las vidas de (los poetas) Byron y Shelley con la catástrofe de una erupción volcánica en los Mares del Sur, con un tsunami en las costas de Bali,
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ABD Fukuşima Faciasından Sonra Okyanusa Sızan Radyasyonu Ölçmeye Çalış ... Sat, 09 Jul 2016 21:58:00 +0200.

2011 yılı Nisan ayında Japonya'da meydana gelen deprem ve tsunami felaketi, Fukuşima Daiçi nükleer santraline büyük hasar vermiş, çevreye yüksek miktarda radyasyon yayılmıştı. Radyasyonun bir kısmı doğrudan okyanus suyuna karışmıştı. Atmosf
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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),