M 4.8 in New Zealand on 11 Apr 2016 19:41 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 1084148
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 27.12 Km
Lat/Lon: -40.932 , 175.5135
Event Date: 11 Apr 2016 19:41 UTC
12 Apr 2016 07:41 Local
Exposed Population:
612862 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Apr 2016 23:15 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
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: 1183 | About casualties: 183 | Last hour: 0

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Japón soportó el terremoto más potente desde el tsunami del 2011Fri, 15 Apr 2016 18:16:00 +0200.

La Agencia Meteorológica de Japón (JMA) no decretó la alerta de tsunami a raíz del seísmo, mientras que la empresa que opera la planta nuclear de Sendai, que se encuentra a unos 120 kilómetros al sur del epicentro y que es la única actualme
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Baby pulled out from rubble as aftershocks rattle Japan following dead ... Fri, 15 Apr 2016 18:13:00 +0200.

"It's as if all control was lost, I thought I was going to die and I couldn't bear it any longer," said Yuichiro Yoshikado, who was taking a bath in his apartment in the hardest-hit town of Mashiki, which lies on Kumamoto's eastern border,
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Terremoto no Japão deixa nove mortos e 1.126 feridosFri, 15 Apr 2016 18:08:00 +0200.

O terremoto de 6,5 graus de magnitude que atingiu a quinta-feira (13) o sudoeste do Japão deixou pelo menos nove mortos e 1.126 feridos, entre eles 50 em estado grave, segundo dados divulgados nesta sexta-feira pelas autoridades japonesas.
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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),