M 5.2 in Tonga on 17 Dec 2016 18:49 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 1101155
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -21.7904 , -174.6121
Event Date: 17 Dec 2016 18:49 UTC
17 Dec 2016 06:49 Local
Exposed Population:
About 70906 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Dec 2016 19:46 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008206 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 697 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

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Japón destinará fondos oficiales a planta nuclear de FukushimaWed, 21 Dec 2016 18:19:00 +0100.

Tokio, 21 Dic (Notimex).- El gobierno de Japón modificó su posición original y destinará fondos oficiales para la descontaminación de la planta nuclear de Fukushima, dañada por el terremoto de nueve grados y tsunami de marzo de 2011. Para e
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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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),