M 4.5 in Tonga on 11 May 2017 08:18 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 1112695
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 94.45 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.3288 , -174.6371
Event Date: 11 May 2017 08:18 UTC
10 May 2017 20:18 Local
Exposed Population:
About 15000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 May 2017 09:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10008rfw Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 186 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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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),