M 5.1 in Tonga Islands Region on 16 Oct 2017 20:03 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 1124011
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.7667 , -175.4036
Event Date: 16 Oct 2017 20:03 UTC
16 Oct 2017 08:03 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Oct 2017 20:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000at0x Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 280 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

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C’est pour dire que, et sans doute qu’Albadé le sait, le contexte politique actuel, fait d’incertitudes qui présagent des chamboulements notables inéluctables, ne pouvait que justifier ces amabilités qui transcendent des douleurs, couvrant
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GE's Earnings Dumpster Fire Puts Dividend at RiskFri, 20 Oct 2017 14:34:00 +0200.

GE's third-quarter earnings report had an earthquake's worth of bad news for investors. Beware the tsunami aftershocks, especially when it comes to the dividend. The industrial giant missed analysts' quarterly EPS expectations by a mile --
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),