M 4.5 in New Zealand on 06 Apr 2017 09:42 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 1109535
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 17.26 Km
Lat/Lon: -41.715 , 174.2221
Event Date: 06 Apr 2017 09:42 UTC
06 Apr 2017 21:42 Local
Exposed Population:
350000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 06 Apr 2017 10:24 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008f5y 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: 561 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

زلزال بقوة 5.7 درجات يضرب الفلبينMon, 10 Apr 2017 09:00:00 +0200.

ضرب زلزال بقوة 5.7 درجات على مقياس ريختر اليوم الإثنين المياه القريبة من جزيرة سامار في وسط الفلبين، دون أن يتسبب في الإعلان عن سقوط ضحايا أو وقوع أضرار مادية. ووقع الزلزال على بعد 137 كلم شمال غربي مدينة كالبايوج شمالي سامار وعلى بعد 507 ك
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Earthquake recovery group to look at text alerts for Kaikoura resident ... Mon, 10 Apr 2017 08:57:00 +0200.

The North Canterbury Transport Infrastructure Recovery alliance used a text service for residents in Oaro and Goose Bay, south of Kaikoura, over the weekend. About 60 people who signed up at a community meeting three weeks ago received text
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Edgecumbe residents return home after historic floodMon, 10 Apr 2017 08:57:00 +0200.

"But my studio and the garage are completely gone … I was not insured for contents or for my business at all. At least the interior of the house was dry. I'm so relieved with that. But I think I'm the luckiest person in my street." Stokes'
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Quakes crack buildings, panic tourists in Philippine townMon, 10 Apr 2017 08:51:00 +0200.

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Back-to-back earthquakes cracked small buildings and blocked roads with minor landslides Saturday in a Philippine resort province south of Manila where jittery tourists left and patients were evacuated from a hosp
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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),