Overall Green Earthquake alert in Tonga on 15 Feb 2016 15:02 UTC

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M 5.9 in Tonga on 15 Feb 2016 15:02 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 1080672
Earthquake Magnitude:	5.9M
Depth:	10 Km
Lat/Lon:	-20.9773 , -175.4802
Event Date:	15 Feb 2016 15:02 UTC 16 Feb 2016 04:02 Local
Exposed Population:	About 82000 people within 100km
Inserted at:	15 Feb 2016 16:48 UTC

GDACS Score

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	Earthquake		GDACS score
NEIC	0.1		0.1
	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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