M 4.9 in Tonga on 23 Jul 2016 21:45 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 1090510
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.4695 , -175.4556
Event Date: 23 Jul 2016 21:45 UTC
23 Jul 2016 09:45 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Jul 2016 23:03 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006h54 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: 443 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

زلزال يضرب الساحل الشرقى لليابانWed, 27 Jul 2016 21:42:00 +0200.

ضرب اليوم زلزال بقوة 4ر5 درجة بمقياس رختر الساحل الشرقى لجزيرة هونشو اليابانية . وذكرت شبكة “ايه بى سي نيوز” الإخبارية الأمريكية ، أن وكالة الأرصاد الجوية اليابانية أكدت أنها لن تصدر تحذيرا من احتمال حدوث موجات مد عاتية “تسونامى” نتيجة لهذا
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زلزال يضرب الساحل الشرقى لليابانWed, 27 Jul 2016 20:39:00 +0200.

ضرب اليوم زلزال بقوة 4ر5 درجة بمقياس رختر الساحل الشرقى لجزيرة هونشو اليابانية . وذكرت شبكة / ايه بى سي نيوز/ الإخبارية الأمريكية ، أن وكالة الأرصاد الجوية اليابانية أكدت أنها لن تصدر تحذيرا من احتمال حدوث موجات مد عاتية / تسونامى / نتيجة ل
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Magnitude 5.4 earthquake shakes Tokyo, no damage or casualties reporte ... Wed, 27 Jul 2016 20:14:00 +0200.

Tokyo: An earthquake shook Tokyo late on Wednesday, but there were no reports of damage or casualties. The 5.4 magnitude jolt was felt in Tokyo and areas of eastern Japan at 11.47 am, the US Geological Survey said. The quake comes a week af
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5.4 magnitude quake shakes TokyoWed, 27 Jul 2016 19:52:00 +0200.

An earthquake shook Tokyo late Wednesday, but there were no reports of damage or casualties. The 5.4 magnitude jolt was felt in Tokyo and areas of eastern Japan at 11:47 am (1447 GMT), the US Geological Survey said. The quake comes a week a
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),