M 5.3 in Tonga on 04 Apr 2020 09:24 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 1212794
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.4943 , -173.236
Event Date: 04 Apr 2020 09:24 UTC
03 Apr 2020 21:24 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Apr 2020 09:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70008ni4 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 5 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

5.2-magnitude quake hits island in Tonga -- USGSTue, 07 Apr 2020 16:21:00 +0200.

BEIJING, April 7 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted 86 km northeast of Hihifo, Tonga around 23:30 (1130 GMT) on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey has said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determ
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5.8 earthquake near Tonga; no warnings issuedTue, 17 Mar 2020 19:36:00 +0100.

A map showing the epicentre of Wednesday morning's earthquake in the waters of Tonga's north. Photo: US Geological Survey. A large earthquake struck in the ocean between Tonga and Samoa this morning. The US Geological Survey says the 5-poi
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5.8 magnitude earthquake strikes off Samoan coastTue, 17 Mar 2020 19:31:00 +0100.

A 5.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded off the coast of Samoa on Wednesday morning. A 5.8 magnitude earthquake has been recorded off the coast of Samoa. The quake, which was at a depth of 10 kilometres, hit at 5.06am Wednesday (NZT), the
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USA travel adviceSun, 15 Mar 2020 12:49:00 +0100.

before you travel. Cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) have been confirmed in the United States. The US authorities have introduced a number of measures to limit the spread of the virus, including introducing restrictions on individuals intendi
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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),