M 4.8 in Tonga on 23 Feb 2017 11:52 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 1106249
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.2137 , -172.8284
Event Date: 23 Feb 2017 11:52 UTC
22 Feb 2017 23:52 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Feb 2017 12:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008lrc Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Tsunami på väg - allmänheten uppmanas evakuera TT NyhetsbyrånMon, 27 Feb 2017 10:18:00 +0100.

Ett kraftigt jordskalv har inträffat utanför Japans kust. Skalvet uppmäter magnituden 6,9 enligt USA:s geologiska myndighet USGS. Invånare evakueras från kusten där tsunamin slår in. Skalvet inträffade 61 km ostsydost om Namie och utanför s
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The Antiguans are coming! The Antiguans are coming!Mon, 27 Feb 2017 10:03:00 +0100.

If you follow news from America, even in the least, you would have noticed that one of the dominating topics is immigration. The newly minted president, Donald Trump, is adamant that America is overrun with illegal immigrants, and he is det
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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),