M 5.4 in Kermadec Islands Region on 02 Jul 2017 09:58 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 1116103
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 13.08 Km
Lat/Lon: -27.3639 , -176.5047
Event Date: 02 Jul 2017 09:58 UTC
01 Jul 2017 21:58 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 02 Jul 2017 10:21 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us100095ut Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 181 | About casualties: 6 | Last hour: 0

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LONDON (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck 9 km (5.6 miles) southeast of Lincoln, Montana, at a shallow depth of 4.3 km, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Thursday. The Pacific Tsunami Warning center earlier reported the
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Magnitude 5.8 earthquake strikes east of Lincoln, Montana: USGSThu, 06 Jul 2017 09:06:00 +0200.

LONDON (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has struck 9 km (5.6 miles) southeast of Lincoln, Montana, at a shallow depth of 4.3 km, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Thursday. The Pacific Tsunami Warning center earlier reported the
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La rotura de un depósito provoca un grave vertido de ácido en el desie ... Thu, 06 Jul 2017 05:10:00 +0200.

La rotura de los muros de contención de una fábrica de tóxicos en Israel el viernes ha vertido 100.000 metros cúbicos de residuos ácidos al cauce seco del río Ashalim y ha quemado hasta 20 kilómetros de desierto, un desastre ecológico que t
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12:55 amThu, 06 Jul 2017 03:42:00 +0200.

In the journal Seismological Research Letters, seismologists Roland LaForge and William McCann describe how they used the records to trace the impact of the earthquake in Aguadilla, the town closest to the 1918 epicenter. The researchers co
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), (2), INFORM (1), USGS (2),