M 5.2 in Tonga on 13 Dec 2016 23:51 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 1100821
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.7097 , -173.3963
Event Date: 13 Dec 2016 23:51 UTC
13 Dec 2016 11:51 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Dec 2016 00:13 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200080lb 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
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 202 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Presidenta Bachelet enviará proyecto de ley para decretar feriado el 2 ... Sat, 17 Dec 2016 23:08:00 +0100.

El feriado de Año Nuevo cae un día domingo. La Presidenta Michelle Bachelet anunció en Tongoy que enviará un proyecto de ley para decretar feriado el 2 de enero de 2017 , ya que el feriado de Año Nuevo en esta ocasión recaerá en un día dom
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Alerta de tsunami en Papúa Nueva Guinea tras un fuerte terremotoSat, 17 Dec 2016 22:52:00 +0100.

Un terremoto de 8 grados en la escala de Ritcher ha sacudido este sábado Papúa Nueva Guinea, en el suroeste del Pacífico, al norte de Australia, y las autoridades han lanzado un aviso de tsunami. De momento no se ha informado de víctimas. L
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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),