M 4.9 in Kermadec Islands Region on 02 Feb 2017 15:34 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 1104643
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.9M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -27.0828 , -175.9863
Event Date: 02 Feb 2017 15:34 UTC
02 Feb 2017 03:34 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Feb 2017 16:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008fwy Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 221 | About casualties: 3 | Last hour: 0

Mother who went missing in remote New Zealand bush found aliveMon, 06 Feb 2017 15:05:00 +0100.

Shelley Crooks, 36, disappeared while trekking in national parkland near Punakaiki, north of Greymouth on the west coast of New Zealand's south island, on December 22. She had told a friend she was hitchhiking to Opotiki in the Bay of Plent
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Chile: Chile’s fires: reaching everyoneMon, 06 Feb 2017 13:14:00 +0100.

By Carlos Kaiser. SANTIAGO, 6 February 2017 – In the midst of Chile’s worst forest fires in five decades, award-winning local campaigners have spotlighted the need to ensure that people with disabilities are not forgotten in emergency opera
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ثورة البحث العلمي: دروس من كوكب اليابانMon, 06 Feb 2017 13:04:00 +0100.

اليابان الشعب الذي لا ينهزم و لا ينكسر، يقدس العلم والتعليم ويمتلك إرادة فولاذية وقدرة عجيبة على الخروج من الأزمات، يقول خبراء علم الاجتماع بأن العزلة الجغرافية التى عاشتها اليابان ولدت لدى شعبها قوة في الاعتماد على النفس ومواجهة التحديات،
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Un sismo de magnitud 5,2 sacude la costa oeste de TurquíaMon, 06 Feb 2017 12:30:00 +0100.

Un sismo de magnitud 5,2 se ha producido este 6 de febrero a 26 kilómetros al oeste de la ciudad Ayvacik, en la costa occidental de Turquía, según reporta el Centro Sismológico Euromediterráneo ( , por sus siglas en inglés). EMSC El temblor
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),