M 5 in New Zealand on 04 Dec 2016 03:15 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 1099947
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 20.29 Km
Lat/Lon: -41.74 , 174.2353
Event Date: 04 Dec 2016 03:15 UTC
04 Dec 2016 16:15 Local
Exposed Population:
368850 people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Dec 2016 03:37 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007eq8 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
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 495 | About casualties: 41 | Last hour: 0

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Wellington region updates tsunami warning maps after recent earthquakeThu, 08 Dec 2016 02:49:00 +0100.

A replica of the New Zealand coastline constucted out of the updated tsunami maps. An updated collection of tsunami maps for the Wellington region have been published on the Civil Defence website, after previous versions left some resident
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Indonesia earthquake: At least 97 dead as army takes over search and r ... Thu, 08 Dec 2016 02:48:00 +0100.

At least 97 people have been killed as rescuers search through flattened homes, shops and mosques for survivors after a powerful 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck Pidie Jaya district in the Aceh province in Sumatra, Indonesia. The earthquake
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Wave of fear over fake tsunami warning Dec. 7, 2016, 8:33 PM ASTThu, 08 Dec 2016 02:46:00 +0100.

A wave of fear swept across Trinidad's east coast on Tuesday evening after social media began sharing a tsunami warning, triggered by the 6.1-magnitude earthquake that shook the island less than an hour before. It turned out the warning was
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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),