M 4.7 in Tonga on 07 Dec 2021 00:13 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 1300292
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 88.69 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.1822 , -175.1131
Event Date: 07 Dec 2021 00:13 UTC
06 Dec 2021 12:13 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 12 Dec 2021 22:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us6000g9w4 Scaled population (vector) 1.93  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 8 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Moderate magnitude 4.6 quake hits 83 km northwest of Pangai, Tonga aro ... 2021-12-07T01:53+0100.

Just 29 minutes ago, a 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Pangai, Ha'apai, Tonga. The tremor was recorded around noon on Tuesday, December 7th, 2021, at 1:13 pm local time, at an intermediate to considerable depth of 152.1 km below the su
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Light mag. 4.6 earthquake - 82 Km NW of Pangai, Tonga, on Tuesday, Dec ... 2021-12-07T01:53+0100.

Just 29 minutes ago, a 4.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Pangai, Ha'apai, Tonga. The tremor was recorded around noon on Tuesday, December 7th, 2021, at 1:13 pm local time, at an intermediate to considerable depth of 152.1 km below the su
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Tonga: Magnitude-5.2 offshore earthquake occurs southeast of Nuku'alof ... 2021-12-05T10:47+0100.

Event. A magnitude-5.2 earthquake occurred in the South Pacific Ocean southeast of Nuku'alofa, Tonga at approximately 20:45 Dec. 5. The epicenter was about118 km (73 miles) east-southeast of 'Ohonua, Tonga. The tremor occurred at a depth of
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Magnitude 5.4 earthquake strikes near ‘Ohonua, Ohonua, ʻEua, Tonga2021-12-05T09:24+0100.

An earthquake of magnitude 5.4 occurred only 18 minutes ago 107 km east of 'Ohonua, Tonga, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) reported. The quake hit at a shallow depth of 10 km beneath the epicenter near 'Ohonua, Ohonua, ʻEua
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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),