M 5.2 in Tonga on 16 Jan 2021 06:36 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 1251804
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.9771 , -173.5284
Event Date: 16 Jan 2021 06:36 UTC
15 Jan 2021 18:36 Local
Exposed Population:
About 5000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Jan 2021 08:18 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000d0lu Scaled population (vector) 2.7  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 7 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Magnitude-5.1 earthquake strikes in South Pacific Ocean, off central Tonga, at around 1936 Jan. 16. No tsunami warning issued.
Slow deformation event between large intraslab earthquakes at the Tong ... Fri, 08 Jan 2021 13:26:00 +0100.

Slow deformations associated with a subducting slab can affect quasi-static displacements and seismicity over a wide range of depths. Here, we analyse the seismotectonic activities in the Tonga subduction zone, which is the world’s most act
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Significant earthquake of magnitude 5.2 just reported 84 km southeast ... Sun, 03 Jan 2021 06:58:00 +0100.

5.2 quake 3 Jan 2:24 pm (GMT +9) A magnitude 5.2 earthquake near Okinawa, Okinawa Shi, Japan, was reported only 18 minutes ago by the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ), considered one of the key international agencies that monito
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Exposed population

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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),