M 4.6 in Tonga on 08 Aug 2016 02:23 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 1091461
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 65.92 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.1879 , -174.0718
Event Date: 08 Aug 2016 02:23 UTC
07 Aug 2016 14:23 Local
Exposed Population:
About 20429 people within 100km
Inserted at: 08 Aug 2016 03:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006c02 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 412 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Una masiva participación tuvo el simulacro de terremoto y tsunami, ejercicio que emuló un sismo de 8.1 grados Richter y movilizó de manera coordinada alrededor de 180 mil personas en el borde costero de la Región de Antofagasta. Previo al i
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Aprueban nuevos recursos para construcción del Mercado del Mar en Coqu ... Fri, 12 Aug 2016 00:47:00 +0200.

Unánime fue la votación del Consejo Regional (CORE) para la aprobación de $487.391.660, a solicitud del Intendente Claudio Ibáñez para el proyecto “Construcción Mercado del Mar, Comuna de Coquimbo”, con esto se refuerza el compromiso con es
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Muisne se pone a prueba frente a terremotos y tsunamisFri, 12 Aug 2016 00:30:00 +0200.

La alerta de tsunami sonó a las 10:40 de este jueves 11 de agosto del 2016 tras un supuesto sismo. Los niños de la Unidad Educativa Alfredo Pérez Guerrero de la ciudad de Muisne se protegieron con sus manos puestas sobre la cabeza y saliero
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NZ keen to help Samoa with climate change centreFri, 12 Aug 2016 00:02:00 +0200.

New Zealand will provide assistance to Samoa's Pacific Climate change centre once it's built. New Zealand's Civil Defence Minister, Nikki Kaye, said New Zealand is keen to provide support in either early warnings or infrastructure developme
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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),