M 4.6 in North Island, New Zealand on 16 Nov 2016 09:15 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 1098549
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 20.42 Km
Lat/Lon: -41.4523 , 175.8993
Event Date: 16 Nov 2016 09:15 UTC
16 Nov 2016 22:15 Local
Exposed Population:
About 64500 people within 100km
Inserted at: 16 Nov 2016 09:38 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100078qy 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

Articles: 688 | About casualties: 11 | Last hour: 0

North Canterbury's historic Hurunui Hotel red-stickered, so business m ... Sun, 20 Nov 2016 01:24:00 +0100.

The historic Hurunui Hotel - one of the oldest pubs in New Zealand - has been forced to close its doors, but the business has reopened next door. The 150-year-old building has been red-stickered due to earthquake damage, after initially bei
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U.S. launches next-generation weather satellite that will revolutioniz ... Sun, 20 Nov 2016 01:13:00 +0100.

The weather satellites that silently monitor the atmosphere over North America are approaching the end of their life spans. If they fail, United States will be left without critical weather data. Scientists at NOAA and NASA have been warnin
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Earthquake: Gerry Brownlee says 'there has been a breakdown' in quake ... Sun, 20 Nov 2016 00:36:00 +0100.

Acting Civil Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee says he has no doubt "there has been a breakdown" in the response to last Monday's magnitude 7.8 earthquake. Brownlee appeared on TVNZ's Q+A show this morning and was asked by host Jessica Mutch
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العولمة تقصم ظهور الأحزاب التقليدية في أوروبا وتهدد بانهيارهاSun, 20 Nov 2016 00:32:00 +0100.

تقف الأحزاب التقليدية يمينية واشتراكية ديموقراطية (يسارية) المتناوبة على الحكم في أوروبا منذ عقود عاجزة أمام خطر ذوبان وتبخر قواعدها الشعبية، وهي ظاهرة بدأت منذ ثمانينات القرن الماضي، وتسارعت وتائرها خلال العقد الأول من القرن الحادي والعشري
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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),