M 4.6 in Tonga on 03 May 2021 19:29 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 1267367
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 569.18 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.5122 , -178.3143
Event Date: 03 May 2021 19:29 UTC
03 May 2021 07:29 Local
Exposed Population:
About 900 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 May 2021 20:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000dzsv Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 39 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Magnitude 4.5 earthquake strikes near Pucallpa, Provincia de Coronel P ... Wed, 05 May 2021 10:15:00 +0200.

A magnitude 4.2 earthquake near Playas, Provincia del Guayas, Ecuador, was reported only 24 minutes ago by the Institute of Geophysics of the National Polytechnic School in Quito (IGEPN), considered the main national agency that monitors se
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Tonga: Magnitude-5.2 offshore earthquake occurs southeast of Pangai Ma ... Wed, 05 May 2021 04:30:00 +0200.

Event. A magnitude-5.2 earthquake occurred in the South Pacific Ocean, offshore of eastern Tonga, at 14:17 TOT May 5. The epicenter was about 140 km (86 miles) southeast of Pangai. The tremor occurred at a depth of approximately 10 km (6 mi
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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),