M 5.4 in Tonga Islands Region on 05 Dec 2020 06:43 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 1246381
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.8829 , -172.7717
Event Date: 05 Dec 2020 06:43 UTC
04 Dec 2020 18:43 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Dec 2020 14:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000cnc9 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 18 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Tonga: Magnitude-5.2 offshore earthquake occurs off of Neiafu at aroun ... Sun, 06 Dec 2020 08:48:00 +0100.

Magnitude-5.2 earthquake occurs offshore of Neiafu, northern Tonga, at around 1941 TOT Dec. 6. No immediate reports of damage or injuries.
Moderate mag. 5.2 earthquake - South Pacific Ocean, 129 km east of Nei ... Sun, 06 Dec 2020 08:17:00 +0100.

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported a magnitude 5.2 quake in Tonga near Neiafu, Vava‘u, only 22 minutes ago. The earthquake hit early evening on Sunday 6 December 2020 at 7.41 pm local time at a shallow depth of 10 km. The e
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Tonga: Magnitude-5.5 offshore earthquake occurs off Neiafu at around 1 ... Sat, 05 Dec 2020 09:16:00 +0100.

Magnitude-5.5 offshore earthquake occurs off Neiafu, northern Tonga, at around 1943 TOT Dec. 5. No immediate reports of damage or injuries.
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake strikes near Neiafu, TongaSat, 05 Dec 2020 08:06:00 +0100.

5.5 quake 5 Dec 7:43 pm (GMT +13) An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 occurred only 17 minutes ago 92 km southeast of Neiafu, Tonga, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 km beneath the
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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),