M 5.6 in Kermadec Islands Region on 24 Oct 2019 19:14 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 1191482
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.6M
Depth: 81.76 Km
Lat/Lon: -28.6292 , -177.0002
Event Date: 24 Oct 2019 19:14 UTC
24 Oct 2019 07:14 Local
Exposed Population: No people within 100km
Inserted at: 25 Oct 2019 19:16 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 ()

GDACS Score

For more info on GDACS alert score click here.
  Earthquake
(Shakemap)		 GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us600062n7 Scaled population (raster) 0  
  C1 shakemap -0.59  
  C2 shakemap 0.53  
  Country Vulnerability 0  
  INFORM_normalised 1  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
Virtual OSOCC
Meteo assessment
Satellite products
Analytical products
Detailed event map. European Union, 2024. Map produced by EC-JRC.
The boundaries and the names shown on this map do not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the European Union.

Updates on volcanic activity (Smithsonian)

Latest media headlines

Articles: 11 | About casualties: 0 | Last hour: 0

New Zealanders to take part in world's biggest earthquake drillWed, 16 Oct 2019 06:10:00 +0200.

WELLINGTON, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand Minister of Civil Defence Peeni Henare said on Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders will join about 65 million people around the globe in ShakeOut, the world's biggest earthquake
...(more)
Kiwis to take part in world's biggest earthquake drill - HenareWed, 16 Oct 2019 05:17:00 +0200.

At 1.30pm tomorrow, hundreds of thousands of Kiwis will join about 65 million people around the globe in ShakeOut, the world’s biggest earthquake drill. The annual drill is to remind people of the right action to take during an earthquake w
...(more)
Hawke’s Bay people urged to sign up for ShakeOutThu, 10 Oct 2019 01:46:00 +0200.

With a week to go until New Zealand’s national ShakeOut earthquake drill, everyone in Hawke’s Bay is being urged to sign up now. Hawke’s Bay Civil Defence Emergency Management Group manager Ian Macdonald said ShakeOut is held across the wor
...(more)
Hawke’s Bay urged to sign up for ShakeOutThu, 10 Oct 2019 00:45:00 +0200.

With a week to go until New Zealand’s national ShakeOut earthquake drill, everyone in Hawke’s Bay is being urged to sign up now. Hawke’s Bay Civil Defence Emergency Management Group manager Ian Macdonald said ShakeOut is held across the wor
...(more)

View more news

Estimated casualties (PAGER)

USGS estimates the number of casualties for each earthquake for the Prompt Assessment of Global Earthquakes for Response (PAGER) product.
The graph shows the current fatalities estimate.

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),