M 4.5 in New Zealand on 27 Feb 2016 14:43 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 1081488
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 41.49 Km
Lat/Lon: -40.5547 , 176.8849
Event Date: 27 Feb 2016 14:43 UTC
28 Feb 2016 03:43 Local
Exposed Population:
About 42416 people within 100km
Inserted at: 27 Feb 2016 17:27 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 703 | About casualties: 23 | Last hour: 0

Tsumani warning issued in Indonesia after major quakeWed, 02 Mar 2016 14:31:00 +0100.

Indonesia issued a tsunami warning for West Sumatra, North Sumatra and Aceh after a powerful and shallow earthquake of magnitude 7.9 struck off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Wednesday, the National Meteorolgical Agen
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Zware aardbeving bij Indonesië; waarschuwing voor tsunamiWed, 02 Mar 2016 14:31:00 +0100.

Bij het Indonesische eiland Sumatra is een zeebeving met een kracht van 7,9 gemeten. De Indonesische autoriteiten lieten een waarschuwing uitgaan voor een tsunami. Het epicentrum van de beving ligt op 10 kilometer diepte in de Indische Oce
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NewsAlert: Powerful earthquake hits Indonesian island of SumatraWed, 02 Mar 2016 14:30:00 +0100.

JAKARTA, Indonesia - Indonesian officials say a powerful, shallow earthquake has hit off the western coast of Sumatra and warn that it could trigger a tsunami. The U.S. Geological Service said the earthquake, which struck Wednesday evening,
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Powerful quake strikes off IndonesiaWed, 02 Mar 2016 14:29:00 +0100.

A 7.9 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of western Indonesia, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reports. There have been no immediate reports of damage. The USGS said the earthquake struck at 19:49 local time (12:49 GMT). It said
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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 (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),