M 4.9 in New Zealand on 30 Jan 2017 13:53 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 1104418
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -44.1394 , 168.679
Event Date: 30 Jan 2017 13:53 UTC
31 Jan 2017 02:53 Local
Exposed Population:
About 27000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 30 Jan 2017 16:51 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007w6b Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 759 | About casualties: 20 | Last hour: 0

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Deadly radiation inside Fukushima reactorFri, 03 Feb 2017 13:15:00 +0100.

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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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 (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),