M 5.6 in Kermadec Islands, New Zealand on 25 Nov 2018 06:14 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 1163233
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 37.51 Km
Lat/Lon: -29.1619 , -177.0918
Event Date: 25 Nov 2018 06:14 UTC
24 Nov 2018 18:14 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Nov 2018 06:36 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us1000hwb5 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.
Virtual OSOCC
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Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
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Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

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

Sarah Stuart-Black: NZ needs to be prepared for a tsunamiThu, 08 Nov 2018 18:16:00 +0100.

COMMENT: "Long or Strong, Get Gone." Evacuate immediately – don't wait for anything. That was a key theme as top international tsunami experts gathered in Wellington last week under the Unesco Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission to d
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Get ready on World Tsunami Awareness DayMon, 05 Nov 2018 04:00:00 +0100.

(AGENPARL) – Wellington (New Zealand) lun 05 novembre 2018 World Tsunami Awareness Day today (Monday 5) is an opportunity for New Zealanders to find out more about tsunami and how to prepare for them, Minister of Civil Defence Hon Kris Faaf
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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), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), USGS (5), (2), INFORM (1),