M 5.5 in Tonga on 04 May 2021 19:51 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 1267488
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.6922 , -173.7474
Event Date: 04 May 2021 19:51 UTC
04 May 2021 07:51 Local
Exposed Population: About 100 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 May 2021 20:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000e04m Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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Un terremoto de magnitud 6 sacude las aguas de FiyiSat, 08 May 2021 07:43:00 +0200.

Un terremoto de magnitud 6 sacudió este sábado las aguas del archipiélago de Fiyi, en el Pacífico sur, sin que se haya informado de daños o emitido ninguna alerta por El Servicio Geológico de Estados Unidos (USGS, en inglés), que registra l
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),