M 4.6 in Tonga from 28 Mar 2022 00:47 UTC to 00:47

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1315862
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 298.95 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.6667 , -177.7189
Event Date: 28 Mar 2022 00:47 UTC
27 Mar 2022 12:47 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 28 Mar 2022 02:46 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gxrx 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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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), WMO (1), (2), INFORM (2), USGS (2),