M 4.6 in New Zealand on 20 Nov 2016 15:31 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 1098917
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.6M
Depth: 16.73 Km
Lat/Lon: -41.724 , 174.2915
Event Date: 20 Nov 2016 15:31 UTC
21 Nov 2016 04:31 Local
Exposed Population:
394636 people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Nov 2016 19:19 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007ax3 Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 2062 | About casualties: 21 | Last hour: 0

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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),