M 5.3 in Tonga on 14 Dec 2016 21:26 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 1100898
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 34.84 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.9504 , -174.4391
Event Date: 14 Dec 2016 21:26 UTC
14 Dec 2016 09:26 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5171 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Dec 2016 21:49 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us200080ti 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: 1137 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

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Mitigasi Bencana Gempa Bumi di Indonesi KESADARAN masyarakat Indonesia ... Sun, 18 Dec 2016 18:48:00 +0100.

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Tsunami Mertens, Napoli - Toro 5-3. Dramma Pescara, Oddo resta a seccoSun, 18 Dec 2016 18:33:00 +0100.

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Uberisation : un mot qui ne voudra bientôt plus rien direSun, 18 Dec 2016 18:03:00 +0100.

La signification du mot Ubérisation va connaître une évolution rapide, qu’il peut être amusant de suivre. Apparu pour nommer un phénomène bien précis il finira par désigner tout et n’importe quoi. Et son contraire. Uber est un pas supplémen
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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),