M 5.1 in Off E. Coast Of N. Island, N.Z. on 09 May 2017 06:19 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 1112491
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.1M
Depth: 54.62 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.8022 , 177.7293
Event Date: 09 May 2017 06:19 UTC
09 May 2017 18:19 Local
Exposed Population:
About 57000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 09 May 2017 06:42 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008qpz Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 318 | About casualties: 5 | Last hour: 0

Making waves: Artist uses newspapers for tsunamiSat, 13 May 2017 05:32:00 +0200.

Artist David Mach says the UK definitely needs to encourage more artists to "start making stuff". "Boy, do we need to make things now, with Brexit, with the way our industry is, the way the world is going, we need to get a shift on." The Tu
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"Si el GNC pasa a valer como la nafta, sería un tsunami"Sat, 13 May 2017 02:17:00 +0200.

"El GNC tiene que costar un precio similar al de la nafta; a igual poder calórico, precio similar" , aseguró el ministro de Energía, Juan José Aranguren , y en seguida se prendieron todas las alarmas de los empresarios del sector, como así
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"Si el GNC pasa a valer como la nafta, sería un tsunami"Sat, 13 May 2017 01:32:00 +0200.

"El GNC tiene que costar un precio similar al de la nafta; a igual poder calórico, precio similar" , aseguró el ministro de Energía, Juan José Aranguren , y en seguida se prendieron todas las alarmas de los empresarios del sector, como así
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MAHAYANA BUDDHISM and NICHIREN DAISHONINSat, 13 May 2017 01:04:00 +0200.

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando. The value of life does not lie in the number of years, but in the use you make of them. Whether you have lived enough depends on your will, not on the number of years.-Michael de Montaigne 1553-1592. According to S
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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),