M 4.7 in Tonga Islands on 14 Nov 2017 05:44 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 1126333
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 239.86 Km
Lat/Lon: -18.5233 , -175.3676
Event Date: 14 Nov 2017 05:44 UTC
13 Nov 2017 17:44 Local
Exposed Population:
Few people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Nov 2017 06:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000bn43 Scaled population (vector) 0.18  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 443 | About casualties: 25 | Last hour: 0

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OSU building tsunami vertical evacuation siteSat, 18 Nov 2017 03:40:00 +0100.

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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 (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),