M 4.7 in Tonga on 16 May 2021 06:28 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 1268957
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 165.19 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.7011 , -175.529
Event Date: 16 May 2021 06:28 UTC
16 May 2021 19:28 Local
Exposed Population:
About 83000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 May 2021 06:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000e3hr Scaled population (vector) 4.63  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 59 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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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),