M 5.8 in Tonga on 15 Jul 2024 17:40 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 1437527
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -16.2694 , -172.4985
Event Date: 15 Jul 2024 17:40 UTC
15 Jul 2024 06:40 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 15 Jul 2024 17:58 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000mzel Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 70 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 3

Urgent: 6.2-magnitude quake hits 187 km ESE of Hihifo, Tong2024-07-16T01:06+0200.

NEW YORK, Jul. 15 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 jolted 187 km ESE of Hihifo, Tonga at 2024-07-15 17:40:20 GMT on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined t
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Urgent: 6.2-magnitude quake hits 187 km ESE of Hihifo, Tong2024-07-16T00:47+0200.

NEW YORK, Jul. 15 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 jolted 187 km ESE of Hihifo, Tonga at 2024-07-15 17:40:20 GMT on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined t
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Urgent: 6.2-magnitude quake hits 187 km ESE of Hihifo, Tong2024-07-16T00:44+0200.

NEW YORK, Jul. 15 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 jolted 187 km ESE of Hihifo, Tonga at 2024-07-15 17:40:20 GMT on Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km, was initially determined t
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Terremoto Tonga, scossa di magnitudo stimata 5.3 a Hihifo, tutti i det ... 2024-07-15T21:01+0200.

Scossa di terremoto. Una scossa di terremoto di magnitudo stimata attorno a 5.3, si è verificata alle ore 01:00 (ore 19:40 in Italia) con epicentro nei pressi di Hihifo, Tonga. La profondità stimata è stata di circa 68 Km . Potete monitorar
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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 (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),