M 5.3 in Tonga on 22 May 2017 16:41 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 1113592
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -17.1314 , -173.5046
Event Date: 22 May 2017 16:41 UTC
22 May 2017 04:41 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 22 May 2017 18:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008u5f Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),