M 6.3 in North Island, New Zealand on 07 Dec 2012 18:19 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 121332
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.3M
Depth: 167.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -38.3337 , 176.044
Event Date: 07 Dec 2012 18:19 UTC
08 Dec 2012 07:19 Local
Exposed Population:
394905 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Dec 2012 18:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usc000e5z5 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),