M 5.6 in Tonga on 09 Nov 2019 11:24 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 1192994
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 257.16 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.2913 , -176.2949
Event Date: 09 Nov 2019 11:24 UTC
08 Nov 2019 23:24 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Nov 2019 11:44 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us600069nz Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 26 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

5.6 magnitude earthquake hits TongaSun, 10 Nov 2019 07:43:00 +0100.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.6 on the Richter scale struck off the coast of the Polynesian kingdom of Tonga in the southern part of the Pacific Ocean, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said. No casualties have been reported. The quake was reg
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Volcanic eruption creates one new Pacific island, sinks anotherThu, 07 Nov 2019 23:03:00 +0100.

The former island of Lateiki is now submerged, according to the news website Matangi Tonga. The website reports, citing geologist Taaniela Kula, that the new Lateiki island is about 328 feet wide and 1,312 feet long. The new island appeared
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World: ECHO Factsheet – Pacific Region – November 2019Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:53:00 +0100.

Introduction. Natural disasters ranging from cyclones to floods, droughts and earthquakes frequently occur in the Pacific region. The pacific island countries (including Papua New Guinea, Fiji Islands, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, and Van
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Pacific regionWed, 06 Nov 2019 05:05:00 +0100.

Natural disasters ranging from cyclones to floods, droughts and earthquakes frequently occur in the Pacific region. The pacific island countries (including Papua New Guinea, Fiji Islands, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands, and Vanuatu) rank amo
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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),