M 5.4 in New Zealand on 12 Oct 2015 08:05 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 1068848
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 21.39 Km
Lat/Lon: -40.6511 , 176.4257
Event Date: 12 Oct 2015 08:05 UTC
12 Oct 2015 21:05 Local
Exposed Population:
189136 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 Oct 2015 08:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.2 0.2
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: 275 | About casualties: 47 | Last hour: 0

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Japan Businesses Support Bringing in Low-Skilled Foreign LaborFri, 16 Oct 2015 08:01:00 +0200.

TOKYO — Three-quarters of Japanese companies support opening up the country to more foreign workers in low-skilled jobs to cope with a rapidly worsening labor shortage, a Reuters poll shows—a stark contrast to deep-seated government relucta
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Terremoto atinge região do norte do ChileFri, 16 Oct 2015 07:36:00 +0200.

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Montaño: Estamos a años luz de la Bolivia de hace 8 añosFri, 16 Oct 2015 06:50:00 +0200.

La presidenta del Senado, Gabriela Montaño, evaluó el proceso de cambio, el desempeño económico, y valoró el trabajo legislativo de la ALP. Redacción central / Periódico Cambio - 8 de diciembre de 2013 La parlamentaria subrayó el crecimient
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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.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),