M 5.4 in Kermadec Islands Region on 14 Aug 2016 04:09 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 1091825
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 45.13 Km
Lat/Lon: -27.4122 , -176.3743
Event Date: 14 Aug 2016 04:09 UTC
13 Aug 2016 16:09 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Aug 2016 04:33 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006dpp 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

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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),