M 4.6 in Tonga on 13 Mar 2017 12:32 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 1107680
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 34.25 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.5105 , -173.2212
Event Date: 13 Mar 2017 12:32 UTC
13 Mar 2017 00:32 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Mar 2017 13:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100088mn 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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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),