M 5.7 in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand on 29 Jan 2017 14:59 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 1104343
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.7M
Depth: 13.75 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.1008 , -177.4845
Event Date: 29 Jan 2017 14:59 UTC
29 Jan 2017 02:59 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 29 Jan 2017 17:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10007w1e Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 303 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

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Exploring Sumatra, land of the orangutans Indonesia is a popular trave ... Thu, 02 Feb 2017 13:17:00 +0100.

Our little group led by knowledgeable guides makes its way into the muggy and humid rainforest. Just a quarter of an hour later, at the entrance to the park, we make our first sighting: a female orangutan is sitting comfortably in one of th
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Sumatra - Begegnung mit Orang-UtansThu, 02 Feb 2017 13:02:00 +0100.

Mit kundigen Führern macht sich unsere kleine Gruppe auf den Weg durch den feucht-schwülen Regenwald. Kaum eine Viertelstunde vom Eingang des Parks entfernt, die erste Sichtung: Ein Orang-Utan sitzt in einem der hohen Bäume und beobachtet T
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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 (48), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),