M 4.7 in New Zealand on 23 Feb 2017 13:35 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 1106253
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.7M
Depth: 10.47 Km
Lat/Lon: -43.124 , 171.7146
Event Date: 23 Feb 2017 13:35 UTC
24 Feb 2017 02:35 Local
Exposed Population:
110000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 Feb 2017 13:54 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us20008lsg Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 606 | About casualties: 19 | Last hour: 0

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Handball NLB Zittersieg: TV Endingen gewinnt hauchdünn, aber verdient ... Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:15:00 +0100.

Dem TV Endingen gelang eine gute Startphase, konzentriert in der Deckung und effektiv im Abschluss. Der STV Baden konnte dagegen halten und in der zehnten Minuten ausgleichen. Baden gab sich nie geschlagen und kämpfte mit allen Mitteln. Das
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Myanmar: Asia and the Pacific: Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot ( ... Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:14:00 +0100.

MYANMAR. A CERF allocation of almost US$4.4 million has been approved to support the humanitarian response following the 9 October attacks and subsequent security operations in the northern part of Rakhine. WFP has begun a second round of e
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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),