M 5.2 in Tonga on 15 Apr 2018 23:40 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 1140431
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.6057 , -175.144
Event Date: 15 Apr 2018 23:40 UTC
15 Apr 2018 11:40 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Apr 2018 00:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000e0rd Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 21 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

5.2 quake to the south of TongaMon, 16 Apr 2018 06:06:00 +0200.

According to the US Geological Survey, this quake was centred at a depth of 10 kilometres, about 250 km south of Tonga's 'Eua island. The quake occurred at around 12:40PM Tonga time. A magnitude-6.1 earthquake of has struck under the sea 1
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Feed aggregatorSat, 14 Apr 2018 04:48:00 +0200.

A first visit by the Myanmar Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, Win Myat Aye, to Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Cox's Bazar took place on 11 April. The purpose of the visit was to meet with Rohingya refugees and speed up the
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Moderate earthquake – Neiafu, Tonga – April 12, 2018Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:34:00 +0200.

Have you felt the shaking? If Yes, tell us by using the I FELT IT form behind the earthquake or at the bottom of this page. Using our EQ Report iOS or Android app would even be easier and very info… ....
Tsunamis could cause beach tourism to lose hundreds of millions of dol ... Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:21:00 +0200.

Andreas Schaefer, an engineering geophysicist at the Geophysical Institute at KIT, presented the team's findings showing that the equivalent of over 250 million USD (ca. 200 million €) is lost annually to beach economies around the world. B
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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),