M 5.8 in Tonga on 15 Jan 2022 04:14 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 1306100
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 5 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.546 , -175.39
Event Date: 15 Jan 2022 04:14 UTC
15 Jan 2022 17:14 Local
Exposed Population:
80 thousand in 100km
Inserted at: 15 Jan 2022 17:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
4.6 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gc8r Scaled population (vector) 4.53  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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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),