M 5 in Tonga from 20 Jan 2017 17:36 UTC to 17:36

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1103693
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 103.24 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.2389 , -174.0894
Event Date: 20 Jan 2017 17:36 UTC
20 Jan 2017 05:36 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Jan 2017 18:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10007uep Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 937 | About casualties: 12 | Last hour: 0

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Italy's civil protection says it's checking reports of a helicopter in ... Tue, 24 Jan 2017 13:21:00 +0100.

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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),