M 6.6 in New Zealand on 11 Jul 2017 07:00 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 1116686
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -49.5461 , 164.0314
Event Date: 11 Jul 2017 07:00 UTC
11 Jul 2017 18:00 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Jul 2017 07:37 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 1
us100098qm Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 earthquake 1 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 earthquake 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 1      
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 655 | About casualties: 23 | Last hour: 0

A Tale of Two PaatisSat, 15 Jul 2017 05:59:00 +0200.

Jul 15, 2017- The Sorakhutte Paati, according to historical records, was built by the children of Kazi Damodar Pande,” recounts Rahendra Pradhan, 58, a local resident of Thamel. Until a few years ago, for commuters en route to Naya Bazaar a
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Fukushima, Tepco pronta a riversare in mare 770mila tonnellate di acqu ... Sat, 15 Jul 2017 05:17:00 +0200.

Tokyo, 14 luglio 2017 - Ambientalisti e pescatori, ma anche gente comune, in ansia per la notizia che la centrale nucleare giapponese di Fukushima , a oltre 6 anni dal disastroso incidente (11 marzo 2011), si appresta a riversare in mare 77
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عبد الله بني عيسى درس اليابان يقول: هناك أملSat, 15 Jul 2017 05:02:00 +0200.

انتشر منذ يومين فيديو قصير، لما وصف بأنه أول مقطع مصور لـ 'نساء المتعة الجنسية' اللائي أجبرن على العمل لإمتاع الجنود اليابانيين خلال فترة الحرب العالمية الثانية، ومعظمهن كوريات. المقطع الذي يظهر عددا من النساء يصطففن في طابور بانتظار أخذهن
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Simulation shows Burnside BridgeSat, 15 Jul 2017 03:51:00 +0200.

PORTLAND, Ore. Multnomah County has released a new simulation of what a magnitude 8 or stronger earthquake would likely do to the Burnside Bridge. And in short, the bridge, which the county says has been identified as a regional emergency t
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (5), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),