M 5.5 in New Zealand on 16 Aug 2013 02:45 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 1002458
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.5M
Depth: 8.5 Km
Lat/Lon: -41.7983 , 174.1252
Event Date: 16 Aug 2013 02:45 UTC
16 Aug 2013 14:45 Local
Exposed Population:
433413 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Aug 2013 05:09 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.3 0.3
usb000j4j6 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

Articles: 608 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 0

Fukushima, Tepco: lavoratori contaminati da particelle radioattiveMon, 19 Aug 2013 15:03:00 +0200.

TOKYO (Reuters) - La società che gestisce l'impianto nucleare giapponese di Fukushima oggi ha riferito che due impiegati sono risultati contaminati da particelle radioattive. Si tratta del secondo incidente del genere in una settimana a coi
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Dos trabajadores de Fukushima, contaminados con partículas radiactivasMon, 19 Aug 2013 14:51:00 +0200.

TOKIO (Reuters) - El operador de la maltrecha planta nuclear de Fukushima dijo el lunes que había hallado que dos de sus trabajadores estaban contaminados por partículas radiactivas, el segundo incidente de este tipo en una semana entre el
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Dos trabajadores de Fukushima, contaminados con partículas radiactivasMon, 19 Aug 2013 14:48:00 +0200.

El operador de la maltrecha planta nuclear de Fukushima dijo el lunes que había hallado que dos de sus trabajadores estaban contaminados por partículas radiactivas, el segundo incidente de este tipo en una semana entre el personal del princ
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Geoparchi a raccolta nel Parco Nazionale del Cilento e del Vallo di Di ... Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:47:00 +0200.

di Salerno, 19 ago. - (Adnkronos) - Dal 4 al 7 settembre ad Ascea si terrà la dodicesima Conferenza internazionale dei Geoparchi europei, secondo quanto stabilito dalla conferenza della rete europea dei geoparchi, tenutasi in Norvegia nel 2
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),