Overall Green Earthquake alert in South Of Tonga Islands on 17 Mar 2022 19:11 UTC

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M 5.1 in South Of Tonga Islands on 17 Mar 2022 19:11 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 1314237
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.1M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-26.91 , -175.962
Event Date:	17 Mar 2022 19:11 UTC 17 Mar 2022 07:11 Local
Exposed Population:	No people affected in 100km
Inserted at:	17 Mar 2022 19:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 ()

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000h5ig	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 earthquake	1
	C2 earthquake	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	1

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