M 4.8 in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand on 23 May 2017 07:02 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 1113623
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 214.57 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.3787 , -178.3839
Event Date: 23 May 2017 07:02 UTC
22 May 2017 19:02 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 23 May 2017 08:15 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC n.a n.a
us10008uc9 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 196 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Boxing Day Tsunami: Scientists drill deep in ocean to find out why Ind ... Fri, 26 May 2017 22:07:00 +0200.

Scientists have long been puzzled about why the 2004 Sumatra-Andaman earthquake was so devastating, as it didn't unfold as traditional hazard models would have expected. New analyses of the sediments entering the subduction zone have allowe
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Pres. Trump's proposed budget cuts funding for early earthquake warnin ... Fri, 26 May 2017 20:32:00 +0200.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Western Washington residents, and particularly those in the Seattle area, have long been concerned about "the big one" -- where, when and how severe, an earthquake will be once it hits. With the recent "swarm" of earthqua
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Asean environment: Wetlands for disaster resilienceFri, 26 May 2017 18:11:00 +0200.

THE 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami originating in an earthquake in the sea off Sumatra in Indonesia devastated 12 countries, including Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka. As an immediate response, the periodic Asian Wetlands Symposium held in 200
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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),