M 4.7 in New Zealand on 14 Nov 2016 11:14 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 1098379
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 15.48 Km
Lat/Lon: -41.7346 , 174.2425
Event Date: 14 Nov 2016 11:14 UTC
15 Nov 2016 00:14 Local
Exposed Population:
378612 people within 100km
Inserted at: 14 Nov 2016 11:31 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100077mw 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1137 | About casualties: 17 | Last hour: 0

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Japón se acoraza para hacer frente a un tsunami de más de 30 metrosFri, 18 Nov 2016 10:23:00 +0100.

Japón espera que en las próximas décadas un gran tsunami de más de 30 metros de altura golpee la costa sur del país. Y, con la memoria todavía muy reciente del desastre de Fukushima, construye a contrarreloj torres y rutas de evacuación, mu
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Japón se acoraza para hacer frente a un tsunami de más de 30 metrosFri, 18 Nov 2016 10:23:00 +0100.

Kochi (Japón), 18 nov (EFE).- Japón espera que en las próximas décadas un gran tsunami de más de 30 metros de altura golpee la costa sur del país. Y, con la memoria todavía muy reciente del desastre de Fukushima, construye contra reloj torr
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New peatland coalition targets cutting climate change, saving thousand ... Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:16:00 +0100.

. UNEP Friday 18th November, 2016 Marrakech, 17 November 2016 - A new global initiative, launched today at the climate meeting in Marrakech, aims to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and save thousands of lives by protecting peatlands
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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.
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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),