M 4.8 in New Zealand on 05 Feb 2017 09:35 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 1104823
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 11.01 Km
Lat/Lon: -45.4969 , 166.3168
Event Date: 05 Feb 2017 09:35 UTC
05 Feb 2017 22:35 Local
Exposed Population:
About 300 people within 100km
Inserted at: 05 Feb 2017 09:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008hrr Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1162 | About casualties: 84 | Last hour: 0

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Intempéries : les aides continuent d'affluerThu, 09 Feb 2017 08:53:00 +0100.

Le projet de loi sur l’égalité réelle en Outre-mer a franchi une nouvelle étape décisive avant son adoption définitive. Les 14 parlementaires de la commission mixte paritaire ont adopté un texte de compromis à l’unanimité. La commune de Ta
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Around 30 residents of New Orleans suffered from series of tornadoThu, 09 Feb 2017 08:41:00 +0100.

About 30 people suffered from a series of tornado, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu stated. As Landrieu said the victims were hospitalized, two remained in hospital, RIA Novosti reported quoting AP. Besides, according to the mayor, the torn
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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),