Overall Green Earthquake alert in Tonga on 08 May 2024 00:09 UTC

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M 4.7 in Tonga on 08 May 2024 00:09 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 1427812
Earthquake Magnitude:	4.7M
Depth:	178.8 Km
Lat/Lon:	-20.4248 , -175.9008
Event Date:	08 May 2024 00:09 UTC 07 May 2024 12:09 Local
Exposed Population:	80 thousand in MMI III
Inserted at:	08 May 2024 00:34 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:	1.1 (Tonga)

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	Earthquake (Rapid Impact)		GDACS score
NEIC	0		0
us6000mx3x	Scaled population (vector)	0
	C1 rapid impact	0
	C2 rapid impact	0
	Country Vulnerability	0
	INFORM_normalised	0

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Latest media headlines

Articles: 15 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

1st LD Writethru: 5.0-magnitude quake hits 201 km WNW of Pangai, Tonga ... 2024-05-11T15:31+0200.

BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.

Urgent: 5.0-magnitude quake hits 201 km WNW of Pangai, Tonga -- USGS2024-05-11T15:12+0200.

BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a....

1st LD Writethru: 5.0-magnitude quake hits 201 km WNW of Pangai, Tonga ... 2024-05-11T15:03+0200.

BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.0 jolted 201 km WNW of Pangai, Tonga at 1149 GMT on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined to be at 19.28 d

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5.0-magnitude quake hits 201 km WNW of Pangai, Tonga -- USGS2024-05-11T14:53+0200.

BEIJING, May 11 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.

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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),

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