M 6.2 in Tonga on 27 Jan 2022 06:40 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 1307708
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.2M
Depth: 4.17 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.0681 , -176.3494
Event Date: 27 Jan 2022 06:40 UTC
26 Jan 2022 18:40 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 27 Jan 2022 07:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us7000gfhb Scaled population (raster) 0 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 527 | About casualties: 13 | Last hour: 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 (91), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),