M 5.3 in Tonga from 25 Apr 2017 14:35 UTC to 14:35

Event summary

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

GDACS ID EQ 1111198
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.9716 , -172.9556
Event Date: 25 Apr 2017 14:35 UTC
25 Apr 2017 02:35 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Apr 2017 14:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008kp9 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 633 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

زلزال بقوة 7.2 ريختر يضرب جزيرة مينداناو بالفلبينSat, 29 Apr 2017 14:07:00 +0200.

قال مركز التحذير من موجات المد (تسونامى) بالمحيط الهادى، إن زلزالا بقوة 7.2 درجة وقع قبالة ساحل جزيرة مينداناو فى الفلبين فى الساعة 20:23 بتوقيت جرينتش اليوم الجمعة. وقال المركز إن الزلزال، وقع على عمق 10 كيلومترات وعلى بعد 68 كيلومترا إلى
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Cutremur în Indonezia. Alertă de tsunamiSat, 29 Apr 2017 13:19:00 +0200.

Un cutremur de magnitudine 6,8 a fost resimțit sâmbătă în nordul insulei Sulawesi din Indonezia, a declarat telefonic agenției Xinhua o oficialitate a agenției meteorologice și geofizice indoneziene, potrivit Agerpres , Agenția a emis o ale
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Gempa 5,5 SR Guncang Tulungagung, Tak Berpotensi TsunamiSat, 29 Apr 2017 12:43:00 +0200.

Tulungagung - Gempa bumi berkekuatan 5,5 SR mengguncang wilayah Tulungagung, Jawa Timur, sore ini. Gempa tidak berpotensi tsunami. Berdasarkan informasi dari BMKG, gempa terjadi pada pukul 17.02 WIB, Sabtu (29/4/2017). Titik gempa berada di
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Authorities check possible damage from magnitude 6.8 quake in MindanaoSat, 29 Apr 2017 12:37:00 +0200.

There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage from the quake, which shook the southern region of Mindanao just before dawn, Philippine officials said. It struck at a depth of 41 kilometres (25 miles) in Mindanao, more than 700 kil
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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),