M 5.1 in Tonga on 05 Dec 2016 00:44 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 1100016
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 99.49 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.1969 , -174.0059
Event Date: 05 Dec 2016 00:44 UTC
04 Dec 2016 12:44 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Dec 2016 01:04 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10007ev7 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 3498 | About casualties: 400 | Last hour: 0

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08-12 Zware beving SalomonseilandenFri, 09 Dec 2016 00:21:00 +0100.

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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),