M 5.9 in Tonga Islands on 02 Jun 2019 10:36 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 1181348
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.2206 , -173.8934
Event Date: 02 Jun 2019 10:36 UTC
01 Jun 2019 22:36 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Jun 2019 10:38 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us70003ud5 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 3 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Pacific regionTue, 21 May 2019 05:09:00 +0200.

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FIJI SEISMOLOGIST QUESTIONS TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEMTue, 07 May 2019 10:46:00 +0200.

SUVA, Fiji (Fiji Times, May 4) – The Seismology Department in Fiji is questioning the effectiveness of an early warning system based at the in Hawaii. Seismologist Nilesh Kumar Jit said it took more than half an hour for a tsunami warning t
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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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),