M 6.1 in Tonga on 11 Dec 2023 06:33 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 1405348
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 238.4 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.6761 , -175.4826
Event Date: 11 Dec 2023 06:33 UTC
10 Dec 2023 18:33 Local
Exposed Population: Few people affected in MMI -
Inserted at: 11 Dec 2023 06:52 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000li15 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),