M 5.1 in Tonga on 31 Oct 2020 10:15 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 1241837
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 549.18 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.1561 , -179.1085
Event Date: 31 Oct 2020 10:15 UTC
30 Oct 2020 22:15 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Oct 2020 10:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000c8lj 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: 18 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

samoa Quakes shake nation amid weather warnings By Soli Wilson, 26/10/ ... Mon, 26 Oct 2020 06:41:00 +0100.

No tsunami warning was triggered by two major earthquakes Samoa felt early on Monday morning, only three minutes apart. The first was at 1:47 a.m. with a magnitude of 6.7, occurring in the Samoa region. The tremor was 10 kilometres deep and
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October 2020 Global Earthquake Report / VolcanoDiscoverySat, 10 Oct 2020 22:24:00 +0200.

Saturday 10 October 2020 18:00 PM | Posted by: Earthquake Monitor. Earthquakes worldwide above 5 degrees during October 2020. Jump to the Daily Reports for October 2020: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 summary: 5 earthquakes 6.0+, 44
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samoa Sunday tremor registers 4.3 on Richter Scale By Tina Mata'afa-Tu ... Mon, 05 Oct 2020 20:21:00 +0200.

An earthquake that registered 4.3 on the Richter Scale shook homes on Sunday afternoon but it did not generate a tsunami. This according to the Samoa Meteorological Service who published a “Felt Earthquake Bulletin” on Sunday. According to
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Shallow 6.4-magnitude quake strikes off Tonga: USGSThu, 01 Oct 2020 06:28:00 +0200.

NUKU’ALOFA, Tonga, Oct 1, 2020 (BSS/AFP) – A shallow 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the Pacific island nation of Tonga on Thursday, the US Geological Survey reported, downgrading it from an earlier 6.7 reading. The quake struck at a de
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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),