M 4.7 in Tonga on 17 Oct 2017 07:00 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 1124046
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 35.86 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.3581 , -173.1925
Event Date: 17 Oct 2017 07:00 UTC
16 Oct 2017 19:00 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Oct 2017 07:22 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000at74 Scaled population (vector) 2.02  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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Disaster-prone Asia vulnerable to rising risksSat, 21 Oct 2017 04:32:00 +0200.

“The least developed countries as a whole are expected to have annual losses of around 2.5 per cent of GDP [gross domestic product],” the study predicts. Losses for more advanced countries are expected to average about 4% of GDP. Natural an
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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.
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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),