M 5 in Tonga on 27 Jul 2016 00:02 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 1090724
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 26.82 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.5856 , -172.4957
Event Date: 27 Jul 2016 00:02 UTC
26 Jul 2016 13:02 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jul 2016 00:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20006hz7 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

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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),