M 4.5 in New Zealand on 26 Jan 2020 02:46 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 1203518
Earthquake Magnitude: 4.5M
Depth: 10 Km
Lat/Lon: -35.6883 , -179.2384
Event Date: 26 Jan 2020 02:46 UTC
25 Jan 2020 14:46 Local
Exposed Population:
No people within 100km
Inserted at: 26 Jan 2020 03:47 UTC
INFORM Coping capacity:
1.1 (New Zealand)

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0 0
us60007g5h 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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Latest media headlines

Articles: 391 | About casualties: 24 | Last hour: 0

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Shaken Caribbean tiptoes back to normal after shock of major quakeWed, 29 Jan 2020 22:23:00 +0100.

KINGSTON/MIAMI (Reuters) - Shaken Caribbean residents and tourists said on Wednesday that life was returning to normal after a powerful earthquake struck the region and rattled nerves but spared the area from serious damage to property or l
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Earthquakes today: Jamaica, Papua New Guinea and Greece hit by huge qu ... Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:02:00 +0100.

One area still reeling from a huge earthquake is Turkey which on Friday, January 24 was hit by a magnitude-6.7 quake. This killed at least 38 people and injured more than 1,600 when it hit 21 miles from Elazig. Buildings crumbled into rubbl
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Full Article: Shaken Caribbean tiptoes back to normal after shock of m ... Wed, 29 Jan 2020 21:57:00 +0100.

By Kate Chappell and Zachary Fagenson. KINGSTON/MIAMI (Reuters) - Shaken Caribbean residents and tourists said on Wednesday that life was returning to normal after a powerful earthquake struck the region and rattled nerves but spared the ar
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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), (3), NEIC (4), OCHA (1), INGV (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),