M 6 in Tonga on 18 Oct 2017 12:00 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 1124146
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.0M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -20.5981 , -173.8949
Event Date: 18 Oct 2017 12:00 UTC
18 Oct 2017 00:00 Local
Exposed Population: About 800 people within 100km
Inserted at: 18 Oct 2017 12:25 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us1000atnb Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 244 | About casualties: 4 | Last hour: 0

Législatives au Japon: la participation faiblit, la menace d'un typhon ... Sun, 22 Oct 2017 11:49:00 +0200.

Des pluies torrentielles et des vents violents s'abattaient sur le Japon à l'approche d'un puissant typhon dimanche, jour d'élections législatives anticipées dans ce pays, causant déjà certaines perturbations dans les transports et risquant
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So, 2017-10-22 11:00 Berlin (dpa) Neue Tonlage im Parlament? Die Sprac ... Sun, 22 Oct 2017 11:44:00 +0200.

Verschwörungsvokabeln, skandalisierende Wörter, Begriffe mit NS-Bezügen, aggressiver Ton und starke Feindbilder: Experten sehen viele Besonderheiten in der Sprache der AfD. Wird die Rhetorik der Rechtspopulisten die Debatten im Bundestag ve
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Japon : le typhon Lan souffle sur les législativesSun, 22 Oct 2017 11:40:00 +0200.

Lan commence à semer le trouble sur les législatives japonaises. A l'approche du puissant typhon dimanche, des pluies torrentielles et des vents violents s'abattent sur l'archipel tout occupé à voter en ce jour d'élections législatives anti
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movimiento telúricoSun, 22 Oct 2017 11:39:00 +0200.

Alarma. Un terremoto de intensidad mayor a 8 grados dejaría más de 51 mil muertos y 3.1 millones de damnificados. Sectores clave en la respuesta inmediata muestran avances, pero el último simulacro revela debilidades en gestión de desastres
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),