Overall Green Earthquake alert in Tonga on 24 Jul 2013 03:32 UTC

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M 5.9 in Tonga on 24 Jul 2013 03:32 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 1000627
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.9M
Depth:	166.9 Km
Lat/Lon:	-23.059 , -177.1569
Event Date:	24 Jul 2013 03:32 UTC 23 Jul 2013 15:32 Local
Exposed Population:	No people within 100km
Inserted at:	24 Jul 2013 04:14 UTC

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	n.a		n.a
	Scaled population (vector)	n.a
	C1 earthquake	n.a
	C2 earthquake	n.a
	Country Vulnerability	n.a
	INFORM_normalised	n.a

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