M 5.6 in New Zealand on 04 May 2015 02:29 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 1053724
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -44.5294 , 168.8557
Event Date: 04 May 2015 02:29 UTC
04 May 2015 14:29 Local
Exposed Population: About 34000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 May 2015 02:49 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Four day search ends in tragedy for Christchurch Nepali man 5/7/2015 9:40:00 PM.

A Nepali man from Christchurch who flew home to help rescue family members trapped after the devastating earthquake has had his search end in tragedy. After four days of digging through piles of rubble, Sanjay Prajapati, 26, his father and
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Four day search ends in tragedy for Nepali ChCh man 5/7/2015 7:24:00 PM.

A Nepali man from Christchurch who flew home to help rescue family members trapped after the devastating earthquake has had his search end in tragedy. After four days of digging through piles of rubble, Sanjay Prajapati, 26, his father and
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),