M 4.6 in South Of Kermadec Islands on 19 Jan 2022 01:47 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 1306555
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -32.6848 , -176.9353
Event Date: 19 Jan 2022 01:47 UTC
18 Jan 2022 13:47 Local
Exposed Population:
No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2022 02:06 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000gd2e Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 596 | About casualties: 73 | Last hour: 0

Tonga tsunami: man survived 27 hours at sea (video)2022-01-23T01:45+0100.

Lisala Folau has lost his homeland. The 57-year-old lived on the small island of Atata, which belongs to the island nation of Tonga. On Saturday, however, the underwater volcano erupted, and a huge tsunami wave rolled over the island, wipin
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Tonga volcanic eruption was larger than the biggest nuclear detonation ... 2022-01-23T01:38+0100.

In this satellite image taken by Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite, and released by the agency, shows an undersea volcano eruption near the Pacific nation of Tonga Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. An undersea volcano erupted in spectacular f
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Australia, New Zealand, Japan deliver water, supplies and telecommunic ... 2022-01-23T01:37+0100.

Estimated read time: 2-3 minutes. CANBERRA, Australia — Three flights from Australia carrying food, water, medical supplies and telecommunications equipment landed in Tonga on Saturday, as the Pacific nation grapples with the aftermath of a
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Vunipolas and Fekitoa in rush to get help for Tonga2022-01-23T01:25+0100.

It has taken a week but Mako and Billy Vunipola, the England and Saracens internationals, have finally heard that their 81-year-old grandmother Lute is safe but she has been forced out of the family village by the damage caused by the volca
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),