M 5.5 in Tonga on 03 Dec 2021 08:40 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 1299807
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -23.4732 , -175.0065
Event Date: 03 Dec 2021 08:40 UTC
02 Dec 2021 20:40 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 03 Dec 2021 09:01 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000g8ne Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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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),