M 4.5 in New Zealand on 01 Mar 2017 16:17 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 1106781
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10.83 Km
Lat/Lon: -43.051 , 173.2251
Event Date: 01 Mar 2017 16:17 UTC
02 Mar 2017 05:17 Local
Exposed Population:
400000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Mar 2017 04:30 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100085zw Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 734 | About casualties: 41 | Last hour: 0

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Tonga’s Tsunami Warning System ‘Inadequate’: Meteorology DirectorSun, 05 Mar 2017 15:52:00 +0100.

Current SMS messaging system doesn’t reach everyone. By Ueretan Bauro. NUKU‘ALOFA, Tonga (Matangi Tonga, July 22, 2015) – Tonga’s tsunami warning system is inadequate to respond to a tsunami that might be generated by a local earthquake, To
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Wal Mart Stores : Friends and strangers replace family's roofSun, 05 Mar 2017 15:27:00 +0100.

CARAWAY - They started arriving at the Larry and Carolyn Brooks residence at about 6:30 Saturday morning. Soon, there were as many as 75. They were there to put a new roof on their house. "I guess blessed is the best thing you can say about
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In Pictures: Palestinian schoolchildren fly kites in solidarity with J ... Sun, 05 Mar 2017 15:27:00 +0100.

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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),