M 5.3 in Tonga on 14 Feb 2016 07:10 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 1080603
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 18.99 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.3955 , -171.8211
Event Date: 14 Feb 2016 07:10 UTC
13 Feb 2016 20:10 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Feb 2016 07:41 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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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Exposed population

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Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),