M 5.3 in Tonga on 10 Jan 2022 10:59 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 1305310
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 25.61 Km
Lat/Lon: -24.7796 , -176.0645
Event Date: 10 Jan 2022 10:59 UTC
09 Jan 2022 22:59 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 10 Jan 2022 16:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gaiu 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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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),