M 4.7 in Tonga on 31 Jan 2024 04:35 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 1412932
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -14.9905 , -173.6145
Event Date: 31 Jan 2024 04:35 UTC
30 Jan 2024 16:35 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 02 Feb 2024 07:08 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000lv65 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 14 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Urgent: 5.2-magnitude quake hits Tonga Islands -- GFZ2024-02-03T15:39+0100.

BEIJING, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Tonga Islands at 1350 GMT on Saturday, the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The epicenter, with a depth of 110.1 km, was initially determined to be at
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Urgent: 5.2-magnitude quake hits Tonga Islands -- GFZ2024-02-03T15:31+0100.

BEIJING, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.2 jolted Tonga Islands at 1350 GMT on Saturday, the GFZ German Research....
Moderate yet deep magnitude 5.2 earthquake 65 km north of Neiafu, Tong ... 2024-02-03T15:21+0100.

Tonga was shaken near Neiafu, Vava'u, by an earthquake of magnitude 5.2 only 15 minutes ago, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake hit at an intermediate depth of 110 km beneath the epicenter near Neiafu, Vava
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Moderate mag. 5.2 earthquake - South Pacific Ocean, 65 km north of Nei ... 2024-02-03T15:21+0100.

Tonga was shaken near Neiafu, Vava'u, by an earthquake of magnitude 5.2 only 15 minutes ago, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake hit at an intermediate depth of 110 km beneath the epicenter near Neiafu, Vava
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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),