M 4.8 in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand on 04 Feb 2017 22:05 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 1104796
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.174 , -177.6078
Event Date: 04 Feb 2017 22:05 UTC
04 Feb 2017 10:05 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 04 Feb 2017 22:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008hpx Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 209 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

A 27m-high tsunami caused world’s biggest underwater landslide 300,000 ... Wed, 08 Feb 2017 21:17:00 +0100.

Scattered debris found near the Great Barrier Reef are the remains of a huge ancient underwater landslide stretching for 20km and measuring 8km wide. Watch oldest giant panda in captivity celebrate 37th birthday.
Así fue el tsunami que se originó en la Gran Barrera de Coral hace 300 ... Wed, 08 Feb 2017 20:51:00 +0100.

Un equipo internacional de cinco científicos, entre ellos el español Ángel Puga-Bernabéu, de la Universidad de Granada, ha descubierto los restos de un enorme deslizamiento submarino en la Gran Barrera de Coral (noreste de Australia) que pu
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2019: PDP will return to power like tsunami – Makarfi boastsWed, 08 Feb 2017 20:35:00 +0100.

National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi has boasted that the party would reclaim power in 2019. The party chieftain said the PDP would return to power like tsunami. However, Makarfi called
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6.3 magnitude earthquake no tsunami threat to OmanWed, 08 Feb 2017 19:13:00 +0100.

The Oman Met Department has announced that the 6.3 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Pakistan does not pose any tsunami threat to the Sultanate. Subscribe to our newsletter and be the first to know all the latest news.

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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),