M 5 in Tonga on 04 Feb 2022 23:15 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 1308838
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.1177 , -173.4552
Event Date: 04 Feb 2022 23:15 UTC
04 Feb 2022 11:15 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 06 Feb 2022 06:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gi46 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Human Sciences Research Council 2/8/2022 10:03:00 PM.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),