M 5.8 in South Of Tonga Islands on 10 Jan 2019 17:00 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 1167688
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -26.9128 , -175.4944
Event Date: 10 Jan 2019 17:00 UTC
10 Jan 2019 05:00 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jan 2019 18:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000j2kv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 220 | About casualties: 34 | Last hour: 0

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Miami’s Haitian community marks 9-year anniversary of devastating eart ... Sun, 13 Jan 2019 05:39:00 +0100.

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Minor earthquake tremors felt in UAE, no damages...Sat, 12 Jan 2019 04:59:00 +0100.

The earthquake was felt by the residents of Masafi. A 2.1 magnitude earthquake was recorded in UAE's East Masafi at 4:01pm on Wednesday, according to a tweet by the National Centre for Meteorology (NCM). The earthquake was slightly felt by
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),