M 4.7 in New Zealand on 17 Aug 2013 04:13 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 1002591
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -41.86 , 174.05
Event Date: 17 Aug 2013 04:13 UTC
17 Aug 2013 16:13 Local
Exposed Population:
300455 people within 100km
Inserted at: 17 Aug 2013 04:39 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
usb000j5fe 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 516 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

Volcanoes Rumble to Life in NTTTue, 20 Aug 2013 17:27:00 +0200.

Three villages lie in the potential path of a tsunami should an underwater volcano in East Nusa Tenggara’s Lembata district experience a major eruption after rumbling into life on Tuesday. Officials said Mount Hobalt, in the sea some three
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Wrecked Fukushima storage tank leaking highly radioactive waterTue, 20 Aug 2013 17:20:00 +0200.

* Radiation so high person could become sick in 10 hours. * Utility struggled to keep site under control since quake. * South Korea calls for more public information. By Yoko Kubota and Yuka Obayashi. TOKYO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Contaminated
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NUCLÉAIRE : Nouvelle fuite d'eau radioactive à la centrale nucléaire d ... Tue, 20 Aug 2013 17:17:00 +0200.

Tepco a annoncé mardi qu’environ 300 tonnes d’eau contaminée s'étaient écoulées d'un réservoir de la centrale nucléaire japonaise de Fukushima. Une catastrophe écologique à laquelle la compagnie d'électricité peine à faire face.
Wrecked Fukushima storage tank leaking highly radioactive waterTue, 20 Aug 2013 17:10:00 +0200.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Contaminated water with dangerously high levels of radiation is leaking from a storage tank at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the most serious setback to the cleanup of the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl
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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),