M 5.2 in Tonga on 16 Mar 2017 06:30 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 1107918
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.3361 , -173.1111
Event Date: 16 Mar 2017 06:30 UTC
15 Mar 2017 18:30 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Mar 2017 06:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008sf4 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 348 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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Robot mide por primera vez la alta radiación dentro de reactor 1 de Fu ... Mon, 20 Mar 2017 04:51:00 +0100.

Un robot ha logrado por primera vez medir los altos niveles de radiactividad dentro del reactor 1 de Fukushima, además de captar imágenes del mismo, pasos necesarios para su futuro desmantelamiento, informó hoy la operadora de la planta. El
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Japanese architect Kengo Kuma talks design limitations in Hong Kong’s ... Mon, 20 Mar 2017 04:49:00 +0100.

To Kengo Kuma, architecture is the “art of working with constraints”. So for him, Hong Kong architects have no excuse not to come up with creative and eye-catching designs despite size, cost and time limitations. “How to leverage constraint
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Robot mide por primera vez la alta radiación dentro de reactor 1 de Fu ... Mon, 20 Mar 2017 02:51:00 +0100.

. TEPCO señaló que el efecto de esta radiación "se protege con de los muros y su cobertura de acero" de la vasija, y precisó que "no se ha detectado ningún impacto" en el exterior de la unidad atómica número 1 de la planta. Un robot ha log
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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),