M 5.6 in South Of Kermadec Islands on 01 Jun 2018 04:52 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 1144717
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -33.0634 , -179.4018
Event Date: 01 Jun 2018 04:52 UTC
31 May 2018 16:52 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Jun 2018 05:12 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000eg6j Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  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

Articles: 170 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Number of homes destroyed by lava jumps to 117Mon, 04 Jun 2018 21:20:00 +0200.

UPDATE: 8:30 a.m. The total number of homes destroyed by lava has jumped to 117 from 87, according to the Hawaii County Civil Defense today. Spokeswoman Janet Snyder said lava has destroyed an estimated 20 to 40 homes in Kapoho. Some homes
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Lava enters ocean in Kapoho BayMon, 04 Jun 2018 19:00:00 +0200.

UPDATE: 6:45 a.m. Lava entered the ocean in Kapoho Bay Sunday night, according to the Hawaii County Civil Defense this morning. The U.S. Geological Survey-Hawaiian Volcano Observatory said fissure 8 continues to feed a large channelized flo
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Lava continues advance toward ocean at Kapoho BayMon, 04 Jun 2018 18:13:00 +0200.

UPDATE: Monday 5 a.m. As of 2:23 a.m., the Kapoho lava flow was out of visual range of U.S. Geological Survey scientists, but seismicity indicated it had not yet entered the ocean. A moderate earthquake resulting from a volcanic explosion a
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Earthquake hits LA: Los Angeles struck as California sees multiple tre ... Mon, 04 Jun 2018 11:03:00 +0200.

The 2.7 magnitude tremor hit at 4.21pm BST (8.21am local time) yesterday. It was followed a 2.5 magnitude earthquake 60 miles away in Green Acres. No one was hurt in the small tremors. But the incidents were two of a number of earthquakes t
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),