M 4.6 in Tonga on 31 Jan 2021 01:33 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 1253852
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 530.6 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.9561 , -179.523
Event Date: 31 Jan 2021 01:33 UTC
30 Jan 2021 13:33 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2021 02:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000ddbs Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Tonga: Magnitude-5.1 offshore earthquake occurs at around 0011 Feb. 4Wed, 03 Feb 2021 13:42:00 +0100.

Event. A magnitude-5.1 earthquake occurred in the South Pacific Ocean in eastern Tonga at 0011 Feb. 4. The epicenter was about 68 km (42 miles) east-southeast of Pangai, Tonga. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 10 km (6 miles), and li
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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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),