M 5.8 in Tonga on 31 Jan 2024 10:49 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 1412957
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 185.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -22.8316 , -177.1381
Event Date: 31 Jan 2024 10:49 UTC
30 Jan 2024 22:49 Local
Exposed Population:
Inserted at: 31 Jan 2024 11:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
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GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000lv7d Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),