M 5.2 in North Island, New Zealand on 02 Feb 2017 05:05 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 1104605
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 64.97 Km
Lat/Lon: -38.0705 , 177.8298
Event Date: 02 Feb 2017 05:05 UTC
02 Feb 2017 18:05 Local
Exposed Population:
About 76000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Feb 2017 05:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008ftt 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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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),