M 5.8 in New Zealand on 24 Nov 2018 23:42 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 1163210
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.8M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -47.9307 , 165.46
Event Date: 24 Nov 2018 23:42 UTC
25 Nov 2018 10:42 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Nov 2018 00:02 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000hw91 Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 219 | About casualties: 9 | Last hour: 0

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B.C. to test tsunami text alerts on mobile phones, TVs, radios todayWed, 28 Nov 2018 21:54:00 +0100.

The province is conducting a second round of emergency alert tests on wireless devices today. At 1:55 p.m., text alerts will be pushed to mobile phones as well as routine television and radio tests, B.C's Solicitor General says. "The key to
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Resuelven el misterio de la mayor erupción en la Antártida en los últi ... Wed, 28 Nov 2018 16:12:00 +0100.

Un equipo de investigadores internacionales ha publicado nuevos hallazgos sobre la mayor erupción en la Antártida, ocurrida en el Holoceno, es decir en los últimos 12.000 años. Según el estudio, citado por el portal Phys.org, la catástrofe
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5.5 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Arunachal Pradesh Border RegionWed, 28 Nov 2018 13:12:00 +0100.

New Delhi: An earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale struck Myanmar-India border region on Wednesday. The quake hit the region at around 3:47 PM. Tremors were felt are Dibrugarh East, Dimapur Sadar, Imphal, Nagaon and Silchar. An ear
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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 (48), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), USGS (5), INFORM (2),