M 5.3 Off-shore on 03 Sep 2016 04:30 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 1093199
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 31.19 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.5632 , 178.7072
Event Date: 03 Sep 2016 04:30 UTC
03 Sep 2016 16:30 Local
Exposed Population:
About 4339 people within 100km
Inserted at: 03 Sep 2016 05:00 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10006jvi 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
Analytical products
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 1516 | About casualties: 44 | Last hour: 0

Saskatchewan miners briefly stuck underground after small earthquakeWed, 07 Sep 2016 04:25:00 +0200.

ROCANVILLE, Sask. — Some people were shaken awake and some miners stuck underground in southeast Saskatchewan when a magnitude 3.8 earthquake hit early Monday morning. Earthquakes Canada said it happened around 4:40 a.m., and was centred ab
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Shut Down Of Injection Wells To Impact OK EconomyWed, 07 Sep 2016 03:35:00 +0200.

The injection wells in the impacted area were already on a 40 percent reduction off their 2014 volumes, directed by the OCC. After Saturday’s quake, instead of reducing wastewater injection more, the volume will go down to nothing. In a fe
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An eye on the US — and on ChinaWed, 07 Sep 2016 03:19:00 +0200.

J apan suffered a blow to its technological pride after the nuclear disaster at Fukushima in 2011, when it was forced to call for help from military robots built by US firm iRobot. Since then, it has pulled itself together. The robotics gia
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بري : لن ادعو للحوار إلا اذا حدث تغيير في الشكل والمضمونWed, 07 Sep 2016 03:16:00 +0200.

اليوم الميثاقية وغداً الفديرالية، لا بل ان زوار أحد المراجع ينقلون ان الميثاقية انما هي الفديرالية، واليوم يتولى الوزير جبران باسيل تعريتها قطعة قطعة. القرار هو مواجهة التيار، واذا كان العماد ميشال عون قد قرر الانتحار، فلن ندعه يذهب بلبنان
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),