M 5.4 in Tonga on 26 Mar 2024 09:37 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 1421234
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.6854 , -173.8734
Event Date: 26 Mar 2024 09:37 UTC
25 Mar 2024 21:37 Local
Exposed Population: 5 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at: 26 Mar 2024 09:55 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000m826 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Latest media headlines

Strong mag. 5.0 earthquake - Tonga, 411 km south of Nukalofa, Tongatap.. 3/29/2024 10:56:00 PM.

Nearby places The closest larger town where the quake might have been felt is ‘Ohonua, a town with 1,200 inhabitants in Tonga , in 389 km (241 mi) distance north of the epicenter. People likely experienced very weak shaking there. In the ca
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Urgent: 5.4-magnitude quake hits 108 km SSE of Pangai, Tonga -- USGS 3/26/2024 11:29:00 AM.

BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 jolted 108 km SSE of Pangai, Tonga at 0937 GMT on Tuesday, the U.S.
Urgent: 5.4-magnitude quake hits 108 km SSE of Pangai, Tonga -- USGS 3/26/2024 11:26:00 AM.

BEIJING, March 26 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 jolted 108 km SSE of Pangai, Tonga at 0937 GMT on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 20.69
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Significant 5.2 quake hits near Pangai, Ha`apai, Tonga 3/26/2024 10:58:00 AM.

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake near Pangai, Ha`apai, Tonga, was reported only 17 minutes ago by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC), considered one of the key international agencies that monitor seismic activity worldwide. Th
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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),