M 5.6 in Tonga on 17 Jun 2020 06:24 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 1222620
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 279.04 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.1218 , -174.9595
Event Date: 17 Jun 2020 06:24 UTC
16 Jun 2020 18:24 Local
Exposed Population:
About 400 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jun 2020 06:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000adb0 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 24 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Un terremoto de magnitud 7.4 en la escala de Richter se registró al su ... Fri, 19 Jun 2020 06:01:00 +0200.

Las islas Kermadec son parte de un grupo de islas poco habitadas, a unos 800 kilómetros al noreste de Nueva Zelanda. El Ministerio de Defensa Civil y Manejo de Emergencias (MCDEM, por sus siglas en inglés) emitió temporalmente una advertenc
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New Zealand earthquake: Huge 7.4 quake sparks tsunami warning - touris ... Fri, 19 Jun 2020 05:33:00 +0200.

New Zealand and nearby tourist hotspots Fiji and Vanuatu have been put on alert over tsunami waves from the quake which struck north of New Zealand at 1.50pm BST. In its latest alert to national authorities, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Cent
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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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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),