M 4.7 in New Zealand on 23 Feb 2017 13:35 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 1106253
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10.47 Km
Lat/Lon: -43.124 , 171.7146
Event Date: 23 Feb 2017 13:35 UTC
24 Feb 2017 02:35 Local
Exposed Population:
110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Feb 2017 13:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008lsg Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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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),