M 4.8 in New Zealand on 11 May 2016 19:55 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 1086139
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 27.57 Km
Lat/Lon: -40.9676 , 175.583
Event Date: 11 May 2016 19:55 UTC
12 May 2016 07:55 Local
Exposed Population:
612224 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 May 2016 21:51 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.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 636 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

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Saskatoon's weather, traffic and gas prices for SundaySun, 15 May 2016 16:41:00 +0200.

New Saskatoon's weather, traffic and gas prices for Sunday Smoky air rolling in from Fort McMurray, high of 23 C. Smoke from wildfires near Fort McMurray will be rolling into Saskatoon Sunday afternoon. (Dan Zakreski/CBC) Weather High of
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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),