M 4.8 in New Zealand on 11 Apr 2016 19:41 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 1084148
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 27.12 Km
Lat/Lon: -40.932 , 175.5135
Event Date: 11 Apr 2016 19:41 UTC
12 Apr 2016 07:41 Local
Exposed Population:
612862 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Apr 2016 23:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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
Satellite products
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2026. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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 (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),