M 5.1 in New Zealand on 06 Sep 2025 19:55 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 1499170
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 38.2 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.4257 , 178.7255
Event Date: 06 Sep 2025 19:55 UTC
07 Sep 2025 07:55 Local
Exposed Population: 60 thousand in MMI&>=III
Inserted at: 06 Sep 2025 20:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us7000qufv Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap 0  
  C2 shakemap 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 0  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2025. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),