M 6.7 in New Zealand on 16 Nov 2014 22:33 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 1043284
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.7M
Depth: 22 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.68 , 179.69
Event Date: 16 Nov 2014 22:33 UTC
17 Nov 2014 10:33 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Nov 2014 01:45 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0.1 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake n.a Max wave realtime 0.08m  
  C2 earthquake n.a      
  Country Vulnerability n.a      
  INFORM_normalised n.a      
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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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 (88), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), (3), INFORM (4),