M 5.7 in Tonga on 29 Nov 2020 23:56 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 1245653
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.7092 , -174.7997
Event Date: 29 Nov 2020 23:56 UTC
29 Nov 2020 11:56 Local
Exposed Population: Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Nov 2020 04:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000cl0j Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),