M 5.8 in Tonga on 17 Nov 2019 12:13 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 1194003
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 493.61 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.8048 , -177.818
Event Date: 17 Nov 2019 12:13 UTC
17 Nov 2019 00:13 Local
Exposed Population:
About 800 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Nov 2019 12:31 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000694m Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 43 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

AUSTRALIA NAVY SHIP BRINGING RELIEF TO SAMOA, TONGAMon, 18 Nov 2019 23:36:00 +0100.

Heavy equipment for clean-up and rebuilding on the way. APIA, Samoa (Samoa Observer, Oct. 27, 2009) - An Australian Navy ship, HMAS Tobruk, is heading to Samoa. It departs Sydney today loaded with a range of goods, equipment and relief aid
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5.6 magnitude earthquake hits TongaSun, 10 Nov 2019 07:43:00 +0100.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 on the Richter scale struck off the coast of the Polynesian kingdom of Tonga in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. No casualties have been reported. The quake was reg
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SHOA descartó tsunami en Chile tras sismo en el Pacífico SurFri, 08 Nov 2019 13:08:00 +0100.

El temblor se registró en la localidad de Nukualofa, en Tonga. Este viernes se registró un sismo 6.5 Richter en la localidad de Nukualofa , en Tonga, el cual generó incertidumbre en el territorio nacional. Por lo mismo, el Servicio Hidrogr
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Volcanic eruption creates one new Pacific island, sinks anotherThu, 07 Nov 2019 23:03:00 +0100.

The former island of Lateiki is now submerged, according to the news website Matangi Tonga. The website reports, citing geologist Taaniela Kula, that the new Lateiki island is about 328 feet wide and 1,312 feet long. The new island appeared
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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),