M 4.8 in Kermadec Islands Region on 19 Jan 2019 04:14 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 1168462
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.8M
Depth: 264.22 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.7072 , -178.5573
Event Date: 19 Jan 2019 04:14 UTC
18 Jan 2019 16:14 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 19 Jan 2019 04:43 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us2000j67h Scaled population (vector) 0  
  C1 earthquake 1  
  C2 earthquake 0  
  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: 2 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

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Indonesia tsunami: How a volcanic eruption can trigger a terrifying wa ... Mon, 24 Dec 2018 05:11:00 +0100.

Regional tsunami are generated between one and three hours travel time away from their destination. For example, an eruption from an underwater volcano in the Kermadec Trench to the north of New Zealand, could generate a regional tsunami. L
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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),