M 5.7 in Tonga Islands on 28 May 2022 15:32 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 1324360
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.056 , -173.1293
Event Date: 28 May 2022 15:32 UTC
28 May 2022 03:32 Local
Exposed Population: No people affected in 100km
Inserted at: 28 May 2022 16:28 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000hdae Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 39 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

Assurer un avenir avec des écoles plus sûres : renforcer la résilience ... 2022-05-30T20:29+0200.

Faits saillants de l’histoire L’éruption volcanique et le tsunami de janvier 2022 – appelés « événement unique tous les 1000 ans » sont les derniers d’une longue liste de catastrophes récentes à avoir frappé les Tonga et à perturber considé
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Terremoto 5.8 nell’Oceano Pacifico: epicentro alle isole Tonga2022-05-28T18:17+0200.

Un sisma di magnitudo 5.8 ha colpito le isole Tonga qualche minuto fa. Una scossa di terremoto di magnitudo 5.8 è stata registrata dai sismografi alle 17:32 di oggi nell’Oceano Pacifico, con epicentro nell’arcipelago di Tonga . Al momento
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Moderate earthquake of magnitude 4.8 just reported 5 km northeast of H ... 2022-05-26T02:37+0200.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 occurred only 18 minutes ago 5 km northeast of Hihifo, Tonga, the citizen-seismograph network of RaspberryShake reported. The quake hit at an intermediate depth of 136.5 km beneath the epicenter near Hihifo, N
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Strong mag. 5.0 earthquake - South Pacific Ocean, 99 km northwest of N ... 2022-05-26T02:37+0200.

Just 31 minutes ago, a 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Neiafu, Vava'u, Tonga. The tremor was recorded around noon on Thursday, May 26th, 2022, at 12:41 pm local time, at a shallow depth of 10 km below the surface. The event was filed b
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),