M 5.3 in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand on 14 Mar 2017 18:16 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 1107799
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.3M
Depth: 31.48 Km
Lat/Lon: -30.3057 , -177.4697
Event Date: 14 Mar 2017 18:16 UTC
14 Mar 2017 06:16 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Mar 2017 15:57 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100088xz Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 322 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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ثقافة الوقوف بالطابور (كيو)Sat, 18 Mar 2017 14:24:00 +0100.

بقلم: علاء كرم الله 18-03-2017 | (صوت العراق) | نسخة سهلة الطبع مثلما الرياضة والأدب والفن وباقي العلوم والفنون الأخرى تمثل مقياسا لرقي وتمدن الأمم والشعوب فأن معرفة وكيفية الوقوف بالطابور(كيو) باللغة الأنكليزية و (السرة) بلغتنا الدارجة بأن
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Disaster risk reduction remains primary objective of A&N Administratio ... Sat, 18 Mar 2017 14:17:00 +0100.

. While offering prayers to all the families who have lost their loved ones in the horrific Tsunami of 2004, which caused huge loss of life and property, Lt. Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Prof. Jagdish Mukhi has said that disast
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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),