M 5 in Tonga on 11 Aug 2018 09:45 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 1153320
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 173.35 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.4793 , -176.2413
Event Date: 11 Aug 2018 09:45 UTC
10 Aug 2018 21:45 Local
Exposed Population:
About 100 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Aug 2018 10:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000g6v2 Scaled population (vector) 1.11  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 6 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

El SHOA realiza el Programa Internacional de Entrenamiento en TsunamisThu, 09 Aug 2018 12:21:00 +0200.

Armada de Chile El SHOA realiza el Programa Internacional de Entrenamiento en Tsunamis El directot del SHOA, contraalmirante Patricio Carrasco, expone las capacidades nacionales de alerta de tsunami. Foto: Ministerio de Defensa. El Servici
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FIJI VULNERABLE TO NATURAL DISASTERSSun, 05 Aug 2018 01:57:00 +0200.

Location on the ‘Ring of Fire’ hazardous. SUVA, Fiji (Fiji Times, March 26, 2009) – Fiji is one of the island countries sitting on the Pacific Ring of Fire that makes it more vulnerable to natural disasters. Natural Disaster Management offi
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The story of Dutchsinse (Part 2)Sat, 04 Aug 2018 23:21:00 +0200.

But there is a third way, as I found out lately: By accident. You just need a way to share your opinion (I’d rather call it teaching) in a public way. You need a target person, for example a popular YouTuber, that could really be fucked off
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TWO SAMOAS SPARED WORST OF CYCLONE RENESat, 04 Aug 2018 00:18:00 +0200.

Powerful storm churning southwest, towards Tonga. WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Radio New Zealand International, Feb. 14, 2010) – Samoa and American Samoa have been spared the worst of Tropical Cyclone Rene which passed by last night and early t
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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),