M 4.5 in New Zealand on 07 Apr 2017 07:23 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 1109634
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 15.83 Km
Lat/Lon: -42.0184 , 173.9707
Event Date: 07 Apr 2017 07:23 UTC
07 Apr 2017 19:23 Local
Exposed Population:
About 47000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 07 Apr 2017 07:45 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
2 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008fdz Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 549 | About casualties: 7 | Last hour: 0

Asia and OceaniaTue, 11 Apr 2017 06:00:00 +0200.

Evacuation exercise in the Philippines: the appointed person runs through the village with flags of different colours, indicating the level of alert, green, red or yellow, so that people can prepare to respond to the disaster. © European Un
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A Mirror which Gives No ReflectionTue, 11 Apr 2017 05:26:00 +0200.

Apart from the lovely juxtaposition, the two news reports did have exceptional value in demonstrating the remarkable extent of the involvement of the Directorate of Intelligence and Security Services (DISS). On the one hand, three of its ag
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2017/04/09 إنفجار ثانٍ يستهدف كنيسة مارمرقس في الإسكندرية بمصر كشفت وس ... Tue, 11 Apr 2017 05:24:00 +0200.

Ces attentats en Égypte des terroristes les kamikazes de satan des crimes. aux chrétiens de se convertir a l'islam en Égypte aux terroristes de poser leurs armes en président Al-Sissi d'appliquer la charia islamique aujourd'hui urgent pour
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Hundreds flee after three strong quakes strike PhilippinesTue, 11 Apr 2017 05:21:00 +0200.

Hundreds rush to higher ground fearing a tsunami after a series of earthquakes on the main island of Luzon. * Hundreds rush to higher ground fearing a tsunami. * Power cut off in some areas in Batangas. * Seismic agency says does not expect
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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),