Overall Green Earthquake alert in Tonga on 14 Feb 2016 07:10 UTC

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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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