M 6.6 in Tonga on 26 May 2024 20:47 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 1430475
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 112.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -19.3769 , -174.8692
Event Date: 26 May 2024 20:47 UTC
26 May 2024 08:47 Local
Exposed Population: 2 thousand in MMI VI
Inserted at: 26 May 2024 21:05 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (Tonga)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us6000n158 Scaled population (raster) 0.3 Max wave alert 0m  
  C1 shakemap -0.59 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0.53      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0.94      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 556 | About casualties: 27 | Last hour: 12

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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 (91), (5), NEIC (6), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),