M 4.8 in New Zealand on 17 Feb 2013 12:01 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 122767
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 9.9 Km
Lat/Lon: -41.9344 , 174.131
Event Date: 17 Feb 2013 12:01 UTC
18 Feb 2013 01:01 Local
Exposed Population:
210000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Feb 2013 13:07 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
usc000f8y5 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

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World Vision delivers aid to remote tsunami affected communities in th.. 2/21/2013 10:52:00 AM.

World Vision is delivering relief supplies to thousands of people affected by the 8.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated communities in the remote Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands on 6 February 2013.
World Vision delivers aid to remote tsunami affected communities in th.. 2/21/2013 10:42:00 AM.

World Vision is delivering relief supplies to thousands of people affected by the 8.0 earthquake and subsequent tsunami that devastated communities in the remote Temotu Province of the Solomon Islands on 6 February 2013.

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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.
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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 (40), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),