M 4.9 in Kermadec Islands Region on 02 Mar 2016 19:07 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 1081745
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.4624 , -176.4325
Event Date: 02 Mar 2016 19:07 UTC
02 Mar 2016 07:07 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Mar 2016 20:15 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  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 799 | About casualties: 10 | Last hour: 0

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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), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),