M 4.6 in Tonga on 04 May 2024 04:30 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 1427183
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 42.3 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.7631 , -173.6097
Event Date: 04 May 2024 04:30 UTC
03 May 2024 16:30 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 04 May 2024 06:39 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Rapid Impact)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000mw9t Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 rapid impact 0  
  C2 rapid impact 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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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),