M 5.5 in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand from 11 Mar 2017 17:10 UTC to 17:10

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1107566
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 19.35 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.6464 , -177.5247
Event Date: 11 Mar 2017 17:10 UTC
11 Mar 2017 05:10 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Mar 2017 17:33 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100088f7 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 626 | About casualties: 23 | Last hour: 0

South China Sea tsunami alert center expected to go on trial in 2017Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:18:00 +0100.

BEIJING， March 15 (Xinhua) -- China's tsunami warning center in the South China Sea is expected to start trial operations this year， according a UNESCO body. The work team of the South China Sea region with the Intergovernmental Coordinatio
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La verdad sobre Fukushima seis años después: menos radiación y menos c ... Wed, 15 Mar 2017 15:01:00 +0100.

La verdad sobre Fukushima seis a�os despu�s: menos radiaci�n y menos c�ncer de lo que se pensaba Pese al alarmismo que rode� al accidente, los datos desvelan ahora que lo cierto es que en Fukushima ni la radiaci�n fue tan alta ni hay m�s c�
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Ученые: образование цунами в Черном море имеет высокую вероятностьWed, 15 Mar 2017 14:05:00 +0100.

Ученые заявили, что в Черном море могут формироваться волны-убийцы – цунами. В связи с этим специалисты настоятельно рекомендуют создание специальной службы безопасности на черноморском побережье. Специалисты Института вычислительных технол
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Desastres naturaisWed, 15 Mar 2017 13:45:00 +0100.

Neste artigo de opinião abordarei um comparativo didático entre situação de desastres naturais que ocorram no Japão, Chile e no Haiti, além de abordar alguns exemplos relacionados ao estado de Mato Grosso, e a realidade Brasileira. Para com
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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.
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),