M 5.2 in North Island, New Zealand on 02 Feb 2017 05:05 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 1104605
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.2M
Depth: 64.97 Km
Lat/Lon: -38.0705 , 177.8298
Event Date: 02 Feb 2017 05:05 UTC
02 Feb 2017 18:05 Local
Exposed Population:
About 76000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Feb 2017 05:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008ftt Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 379 | About casualties: 43 | Last hour: 0

«Beaucoup d'enfants meurent du fait de l'embargo»Mon, 06 Feb 2017 04:12:00 +0100.

Je suis chirurgien depuis 35 ans et depuis 2001, j'interviens régulièrement dans des missions humanitaires à travers la Chaîne de l'Espoir pour opérer du cœur des enfants mais aussi former des chirurgiens à ce type d'intervention, comme je
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Tsunamiens spøgelser hjemsøger japanerneMon, 06 Feb 2017 01:20:00 +0100.

Lektor Hara Takahashi har udgivet ”The Ghosts of Tsunami Dead and Kokoro no kea in Japan’s Religious Landscape” (De tsunami-dræbtes spøgelser og hjerte-pleje i Japans religiøse landskab) i Journal of Religion in Japan, volume 5, 2016. Lekto
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مفاجأة.. حقائق تثبت وجود المدينة الأسطوريةMon, 06 Feb 2017 00:09:00 +0100.

"أتلانتيس" تلك المدينة الأسطورية التي لحق بها الدمار بين ليلة وضحاها.. ظلت لقرون سرا غامضا.. هل كانت حقيقية أم أنها أسطورة خيالية؟ الآن.. نحن على وشك حل اللغز والتوصل إلى سر الموقع الحقيقي للمدينة الأسطورية، والذي استولى على خيالنا منذ آلاف
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Cutremur de 6,4 grade pe scara Richter!Sun, 05 Feb 2017 23:16:00 +0100.

Nu a fost emisă alertă de tsunami, potrivit agenţiei nipone de meteorologie, care a anunţat la rândul său o magnitudine de 6,5 grade pe scara Richter a seismului. Miercuri dimineaţă, (marţi, 19.21, ora României), un cutremur de suprafaţă cu
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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),