M 4.5 in New Zealand on 11 Jan 2017 00:19 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 1102947
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: Km
Lat/Lon: -41.7131 , 174.2686
Event Date: 11 Jan 2017 00:19 UTC
11 Jan 2017 13:19 Local
Exposed Population:
390000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 11 Jan 2017 00:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007shp Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

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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),