M 4.5 in New Zealand on 07 Apr 2017 07:23 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 1109634
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 15.83 Km
Lat/Lon: -42.0184 , 173.9707
Event Date: 07 Apr 2017 07:23 UTC
07 Apr 2017 19:23 Local
Exposed Population:
About 47000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Apr 2017 07:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008fdz 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

A Mirror which Gives No Reflection 4/11/2017 5:26:00 AM.

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Evangelina Chamorro presenta su nueva casa cargada de sueños y esperan.. 4/11/2017 12:28:00 AM.

En una entrevista en vivo para Perú21, la mujer quien emergió del barro tras el huaico en Punta Hermosa, nos narró cómo vive ahora. Una nueva vida para Evangelina Chamorro está por comenzar. La mujer quien emergió del barro tras el en Pu
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Award-winning photojournalist finds light in tragedy 4/10/2017 7:56:00 PM.

When a Colombian volcano erupted in 1985 and killed more than 20,000, Carol Guzy trudged through miles of mud to capture images of the tragedy. This effort won her and her Miami Herald colleague their first Pulitzer Prize for spot news phot
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Quake hits Samar; outages in Batangas 4/10/2017 6:55:00 PM.

Leniel Salayon, science research assistant, said the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology had not recorded any single aftershock. “The Samar tremor had nothing to do with the quakes in Batangas,” she told the Manila Standard.
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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),