M 5.1 in New Zealand on 13 Nov 2016 15:33 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 1098273
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 11.71 Km
Lat/Lon: -41.8691 , 174.3031
Event Date: 13 Nov 2016 15:33 UTC
14 Nov 2016 04:33 Local
Exposed Population:
294367 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Nov 2016 14:07 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100077bl 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
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 2861 | About casualties: 186 | Last hour: 0

NASA via CNNThu, 17 Nov 2016 14:52:00 +0100.

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OTTAWA – Un navire de guerre canadien participe aux opérations de secours en Nouvelle-Zélande, dans la foulée d’un séisme de magnitude 7,8 qui a fait deux morts et coupé des centaines de personnes du reste du monde. Le NCSM Vancouver se tro
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Indian police suspend 2 officers for fake Everest claimThu, 17 Nov 2016 14:27:00 +0100.

FILE- In this July 4, 2016 file photo, Indian climber, Satyarup Sidhantha holds on his right hand a photograph that shows him on Mount Everest, along with what he says is an altered version of the same used by an Indian couple to make it ap
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Indian police suspend 2 officers for fake Everest claimThu, 17 Nov 2016 14:22:00 +0100.

NEW DELHI (AP) — Two police officers — a husband and wife — have been suspended in India for falsely claiming they scaled Mount Everest in Nepal in May, police said Thursday. Nepal’s government earlier canceled the climbing certificates iss
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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),