M 5.5 in Tonga on 17 Jul 2021 03:23 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 1277527
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 559.13 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.6238 , -178.3804
Event Date: 17 Jul 2021 03:23 UTC
16 Jul 2021 15:23 Local
Exposed Population:
About 900 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Jul 2021 03:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000emsw Scaled population (vector) 0  
  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

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Event. A magnitude-5.4 offshore earthquake occurred near Tonga at 13:36 July 18. The epicenter was about 215 km (134 miles) north of Nuku'alofa. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 211 km (131 miles), and light shaking likely occurred i
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Pacific Ocean: Magnitude-5.4 earthquake occurs northeast of Neiafu, To ... 2021-07-16T14:35+0200.

Event. A magnitude-5.4 earthquake occurred in the Pacific Ocean northeast of Vava'u Island, Tonga at 23:02 July 16. The epicenter was about 139 km (86 miles) northeast of Neiafu, Tonga. The tremor occurred at a depth of about 10 km (6 miles
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Significant 5.0 quake hits near Neiafu, Vava‘u, Tonga2021-07-14T04:32+0200.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.0 occurred only 19 minutes ago 15 km northeast of Neiafu, Tonga, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake hit at an intermediate depth of 87 km beneath the epicenter near Neiafu, Vava
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FREE samoa Earthquake strikes; weather warning issued By Tina Mata'afa ... 2021-07-12T10:02+0200.

An earthquake felt in Samoa after 11 pm on Sunday night had its epicentre close to Tonga, the Samoa Meteorological Service said. According to information from the Met Service published on Sunday night, 11 July, the tremor struck at 11:24 p.
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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),