M 4.7 in Tonga on 15 Jun 2020 01:29 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 1222320
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.557 , -173.233
Event Date: 15 Jun 2020 01:29 UTC
14 Jun 2020 13:29 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Jun 2020 02:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000aby0 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 22 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Magnitude 7.4 earthquake not strong enough to trigger tsunami, expert ... Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:13:00 +0200.

"Once it starts to get shallow ... you have the potential that it could actually break the sea floor ... generate a tsunami," Ristau told RNZ. The earthquake occurred on the Kermadec Trench - which runs between East Cape and Tonga and is pa
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Se registra un fuerte sismo de 7,4 frente a la costa de Nueva ZelandaFri, 19 Jun 2020 00:02:00 +0200.

Wellington, 18 jun (RHC) Un fuerte sismo de 7,4 se registró este jueves al sur de las islas Kermadec, frente a la costa de Nueva Zelanda, informa la Agencia Nacional de Manejo de Emergencias del país. Además, las autoridades aseguraron que
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Terremoto de 7,4 grados en Nueva Zelanda: hay alerta de tsunami en alg ... Thu, 18 Jun 2020 22:34:00 +0200.

Un terremoto de magnitud 7,4 sacudió este jueves las islas de Kermadec , un archipiélago neozelandés en el océano Pacífico, sin que las autoridades hayan informado de daños materiales o hayan emitido por el momento una alerta de tsunami par
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Terremoto de magnitud 7,1 sacude las islas neozelandesas de Kermadec: ... Thu, 18 Jun 2020 21:45:00 +0200.

Las Kermadec, situadas entre Nueva Zelanda y Tonga, están deshabitadas, con la sola excepción del personal de la base permanentemente instalada en la isla de Raoul, que tiene una estación meteorológica y de radio. Un terremoto de magnitud
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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),