M 5 in New Zealand on 01 Mar 2017 19:01 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 1106789
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 8.68 Km
Lat/Lon: -43.0554 , 173.1656
Event Date: 01 Mar 2017 19:01 UTC
02 Mar 2017 08:01 Local
Exposed Population:
410000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 01 Mar 2017 22:27 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.1 0.1
us10008621 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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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 812 | About casualties: 60 | Last hour: 0

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© Provided by Independent Print Limited. A Japanese company tasked with cleaning up Fukushima, the site of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, has admitted that its attempts to probe the site are failing repeatedly due to incredibly
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Orages et vents violents : la vigilance orange étendue à 33 départemen ... Sun, 05 Mar 2017 18:21:00 +0100.

Neuf nouveaux départements ont été placés en vigilance orange en raison d'un fort coup de vent attendu lundi. Un orage s'abat sur la commune de Vennecy (Loiret), le 1er juin 2016. (CITIZENSIDE/SÉBASTIEN² RICHARD / CITIZENSIDE / AFP) Les in
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Grand feu de Bouge: la météo est ancrée dans les traditionsSun, 05 Mar 2017 18:20:00 +0100.

Le premier dimanche du Carême tombe la plupart du temps après la première moitié du mois de février ou début mars. Et à cette période, au niveau de la météo, c’est quitte ou double. Cette année, c'est double... Pour cette nouvelle édition,
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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),