M 5.1 in Tonga on 18 Sep 2018 07:24 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 1156966
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -24.4526 , -175.199
Event Date: 18 Sep 2018 07:24 UTC
17 Sep 2018 19:24 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Sep 2018 08:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000hg99 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Eighth Pacific Tsunami Drill set for September to November 2018Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:00:00 +0200.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),