M 6.1 in New Zealand on 20 Sep 2017 01:43 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 1121884
Earthquake Magnitude: 6.1M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -50.371 , 162.5497
Event Date: 20 Sep 2017 01:43 UTC
20 Sep 2017 12:43 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 20 Sep 2017 02:04 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 Tsunami GDACS score
NEIC 0 0 0
us2000arel Scaled population (vector) 0 Max wave scenario 0m  
  C1 shakemap 0 Max wave realtime 0m  
  C2 shakemap 0      
  Country Vulnerability 0      
  INFORM_normalised 0      
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 1235 | About casualties: 33 | Last hour: 0

Earthquake shakes Mexico as it attempts to recover from quakes that ki ... Sun, 24 Sep 2017 01:36:00 +0200.

A STRONG earthquake shook Mexico yesterday, causing fresh alarm in a country reeling from two even more powerful quakes this month that have killed nearly 400 people. The US Geological Survey said the 6.1 magnitude quake was centred about 1
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Dos mujeres murieron de un infarto tras una nueva alerta de terremoto ... Sun, 24 Sep 2017 01:35:00 +0200.

TERREMOTO EN MEXICO. FOTO TOMADA DE EL-NACIONAL.COM La muerte por infarto de dos mujeres, derivados de "una crisis nerviosa" ante la activación del alerta sísmica por un nuevo terremoto de magnitud 6,1 esta mañana, fue reportada por el Gob
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Latest Mexico quake spreads alarm, rescue efforts suspendedSun, 24 Sep 2017 01:33:00 +0200.

MEXICO CITY: A magnitude 6.2 earthquake shook southern Mexico on Saturday and spread alarm in the capital, where rescuers temporarily suspended a search for survivors of a bigger tremor earlier this week out of fear of further building coll
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Un nouveau séisme secoue Mexico, les recherches de survivants reprenne ... Sun, 24 Sep 2017 01:30:00 +0200.

Les recherches ont repris samedi à Mexico pour tenter de retrouver les derniers survivants du séisme qui a fait au moins 305 morts il y a quatre jours, après une nouvelle secousse qui a, à nouveau, jeté dans les rues des habitants traumatis
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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 (88), (5), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (2), USGS (5), INFORM (4), NOAA (1),