M 4.8 in Off E. Coast Of N. Island, N.Z. on 12 May 2017 15:32 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 1112830
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 55.34 Km
Lat/Lon: -37.3836 , 179.0296
Event Date: 12 May 2017 15:32 UTC
13 May 2017 03:32 Local
Exposed Population:
About 1000 people within 100km
Inserted at: 12 May 2017 16:09 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us10008rwc Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 191 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

Pianeta sconosciuto in collisione con la Terra: probabili terremoti e ... Tue, 16 May 2017 14:23:00 +0200.

. Scienze / 16 maggio, 2017 Pianeta sconosciuto in collisione con la Terra: probabili terremoti e tsunami di incredibili proporzioni Secondo quanto recentemente scoperto da geologi e astrofisici, sembra che alcuni dei più grandi terremoti
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Tumori, Farmindustria: in arrivo uno tsunami positivo di prodottiTue, 16 May 2017 14:02:00 +0200.

16 maggio 2017 - 13:47 Filomena Fotia Passi avanti nella lotta ai tumori grazie alla ricerca sui farmaci, con nuovi prodotti all’orizzonte che lasciano presagire “uno tsunami positivo”. Parola di Massimo Scaccabarozzi, presidente di Farmind
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Un misterioso “pianeta X” in “rotta di collisione” verso la Terra: “ad ... Tue, 16 May 2017 13:32:00 +0200.

David Meade , che ha pubblicato il libro “ Planet X – The 2017 Arrival ” (Kindle Edition, non è ancora stato tradotto in italiano). Secondo gli studi di Meade , un pianeta “X” si starebbe muovendo verso la Terra e pur non colpendola, sarà i
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Puppets not on a string in NorthamptonTue, 16 May 2017 11:30:00 +0200.

You might think that for the puppeteer bring the novel War Horse to life on the stage, you might look for a smaller scale project for your next theatrical event. But having downed tools on the West End show, Toby Olie and Finn Caldwell, the
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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),