M 5.6 in Tonga on 13 May 2018 05:50 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 1142929
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.1634 , -173.874
Event Date: 13 May 2018 05:50 UTC
12 May 2018 17:50 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 May 2018 06:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000e3zd Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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

Japan looks to team up with island nations on Indo-Pacific strategyWed, 09 May 2018 05:23:00 +0200.

At an upcoming summit meeting, Japan will take steps to beef up collaboration with Pacific island nations in an effort to promote the free and open Indo-Pacific strategy advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. At the eighth Pacific Islands
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Japan looks to team up with island nations on Indo-Pacific strategySun, 06 May 2018 13:27:00 +0200.

At an upcoming summit meeting, Japan will take steps to beef up collaboration with Pacific island nations in an effort to promote the free and open Indo-Pacific strategy advocated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. At the eighth Pacific Islands
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5.2 quake to the south of TongaMon, 16 Apr 2018 06:06:00 +0200.

According to the US Geological Survey, this quake was centred at a depth of 10 kilometres, about 250 km south of Tonga's 'Eua island. The quake occurred at around 12:40PM Tonga time. A magnitude-6.1 earthquake of has struck under the sea 1
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Feed aggregatorSat, 14 Apr 2018 04:48:00 +0200.

A first visit by the Myanmar Minister for Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement, Win Myat Aye, to Kutupalong Refugee Camp in Cox's Bazar took place on 11 April. The purpose of the visit was to meet with Rohingya refugees and speed up the
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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),