M 4.7 in Tonga Islands on 15 Sep 2022 03:44 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 1337786
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 231.916 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.6938 , -175.6013
Event Date: 15 Sep 2022 03:44 UTC
14 Sep 2022 15:44 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 15 Sep 2022 21:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000i86t Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact -0.59  
  C2 rapid impact 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0.94  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),