M 4.9 in New Zealand on 11 Feb 2017 20:18 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 1105346
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 18.96 Km
Lat/Lon: -42.7019 , 172.758
Event Date: 11 Feb 2017 20:18 UTC
12 Feb 2017 09:18 Local
Exposed Population:
400000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Feb 2017 23:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us20008j7v Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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Alerta de Tsunami descartada tras sismo en ManabíWed, 15 Feb 2017 19:21:00 +0100.

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Nervous wait for Christchurch residents as Port Hills wildfires burn f ... Wed, 15 Feb 2017 18:49:00 +0100.

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