M 4.7 in New Zealand on 09 Sep 2016 22:02 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 1093632
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 96.01 Km
Lat/Lon: -40.4245 , 173.8785
Event Date: 09 Sep 2016 22:02 UTC
10 Sep 2016 10:02 Local
Exposed Population:
About 8371 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 Sep 2016 22:24 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10006ngh 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

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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),