M 5 in Kermadec Islands Region on 15 Aug 2017 05:07 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 1119343
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.0M
Depth: 35 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.536 , -176.1948
Event Date: 15 Aug 2017 05:07 UTC
14 Aug 2017 17:07 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 15 Aug 2017 05:59 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000a8ba Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 274 | About casualties: 2 | Last hour: 0

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Mild Earthquake Strikes Near Palau’s Angaur IslandSat, 19 Aug 2017 02:50:00 +0200.

No damage or injuries reported from 4.9 magnitude quake. By Jose Rodriguez T. Senase. KOROR, Palau (Island Times, Dec. 1, 2014) – A mild earthquake struck near one of the island states of Palau over the weekend. Information from the US Geol
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5.1 mag earthquake in Kermadec Islands regionSat, 19 Aug 2017 02:30:00 +0200.

Update: 12:00PM A MODERATE earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter Scale was recorded in the Kermadec Islands region this morning. The seismic activity was located 177km East southeast from Raoul Island, New Zealand, 1171km East northeast f
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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),